November 29th 2023.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently revealed that life expectancy in the United States has increased between 2021 and 2022 after two years of decline related to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the National Center for Health Statistics report, the life expectancy, which is the average age a person is expected to live, rose from 76.4 in 2021 to 77.5 in 2022.
Although the increase is substantial, it does not make up for the 2.4 year-drop in life expectancy between 2019 and 2021, the report explained. ABC News reported that before this new increase in life expectancy, it had fallen to its lowest levels in 26 years.
When the pandemic started in early 2020, former President Donald Trump had predicted that less than 100,000 people would die due to COVID-19. However, more than 1.1 million people have passed away since the lockdowns began.
The authors of the CDC report revealed that both sexes witnessed an increase in life expectancy between 2021 and 2022, with men having a life expectancy increase of 1.3 years, and women seeing an increase of 0.9 years. Every racial/ethnic group also saw life expectancy increases. American Indians and Alaska Natives had the highest increase with 2.3 years, followed by Hispanics at 2.2 years, Black Americans at 1.6 years, Asian Americans at 1.0 years, and White Americans at 0.8 years.
Moreover, the CDC reported that in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, 350,831 Americans died from the virus, while 460,000 people died in 2021, and in 2022, 244,986 people died. The CDC also pointed out that declines in deaths from heart disease, unintentional injuries, cancer and homicides have helped increase life expectancy. If not for increases in deaths due to influenza and pneumonia, perinatal conditions, kidney disease, nutritional deficiencies, and congenital malformations, life expectancy would have been even greater.
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