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Covid Cuts Average Life Expectancy By 1 Year — More If You're Black Or Latino
CNN: Coronavirus Pandemic Will Knock More Than A Year Off Average US Life Expectancy, Study Finds
The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it's also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences projects that Covid-19 will reduce US life expectancy in 2020 by 1.13 years, with a disproportionate number of deaths occurring among Black and Latino populations. (Kallingal, 1/15)
ScienceDaily: COVID-19 Reduced U.S. Life Expectancy, Especially Among Black And Latino Populations
The COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed more than 336,000 lives in the United States in 2020, has significantly affected life expectancy, USC and Princeton researchers have found. The researchers project that, due to the pandemic deaths last year, life expectancy at birth for Americans will shorten by 1.13 years to 77.48 years, according to their study published Thursday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That is the largest single-year decline in life expectancy in at least 40 years and is the lowest life expectancy estimated since 2003. (1/14)
NBC Los Angeles: New Study Finds Coronavirus Has Reduced Life Expectancy For Blacks And Latinos
The declines in life expectancy are likely even starker among Black and Latino communities. For Blacks, the researchers project their life expectancy would shorten by 2.10 years to 72.78 years, and 3.05 years for Latinos to 78.77 years. Whites are also impacted, but their projected decline is much smaller -- 0.68 years -- to 77.84 years. (1/14)
