U.S. Life Expectancy Plummeted by 1.8 Years in 2020, for Obvious Reasons

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The still-raging coronavirus pandemic helped to wipe 1.8 years off U.S. life expectancy last year, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Life expectancy fell to 77 years in 2020, the figures show, in the most dramatic one-year drop in life-expectancy since at least World War II. Elizabeth Arias, a demographer at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, said she had to recheck her calculations several times because the drop was so much bigger she had anticipated.

“I knew there was going to be a decline, but I didn’t expect it to be this large,” Arias said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “For some groups, life expectancy declined three years or more.” COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death last year, behind heart disease and cancer. The figures also show the highest ever number of drug-overdose deaths. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.

{Matzav.com}

4 COMMENTS

  1. Actually, according to surveys, fewer people died last year during the “coronavirus pandemic” than in previous years from existing illness. Sadly many were murdered in hospitals via ventilators and many died after being treated with Remdesivir ending up on dialysis.

    THE PANDEMIC, OR BETTER YET, THE EPIDEMIC STARTED IN 2021 AFTER THE VACCINES WERE ROLLED OUT.

    • ” fewer people died last year during the “coronavirus pandemic” than in previous years from existing illness”

      That is a lie. Overall mortality increased by 17%. 10% of the 17% was attibuted to COVID.

      “EPIDEMIC STARTED IN 2021 AFTER THE VACCINES WERE ROLLED OUT.”

      Also a lie.

  2. The headline writes that the drop in life expectancy occurred for obvious reasons. You then show a picture of COVID vaccines. The actual data in the Wall Street Journal article you refer to and as posted on the CDC website and as noted in various other newspaper articles referring to the decline in life expectancy indicate that the DECLINE is DUE to COVID illness. Not vaccines. You can have opinions about the vaccine all you want! But as a website for Orthodox Jews to read the news, please do not use catchy headlines and pictures to imply an opinion that is not actually supported by the data in the very article you are quoting. If you need to impress your opinion on your readers, then at least have the decency to find a source that actually supports your claims. Stop infantalizing us and just stick to the facts please.

  3. Take all the vaccines as they become available, wear a disposable mask, and stay in total isolation, and you’ll be guaranteed to live forever.

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