This is mind-boggling and misleading misinformation disseminated by the U.S. government and eagerly and uncritically propagated up by leftist outfits like STAT!
This does not make any sense. A baby born today, will have a much better life expectancy and better health than any generation before given all the advances just over the last two decades and going forward.
To use the singular event of the global Covid-19 pandemic to reduce the life expectancy statistic is at best amateurish by the CDC!
"... American Indian and Alaskan Native people have experienced a particularly precipitous drop in life expectancy since 2019, going from 71.8 to 65.2 years. ..."
"Life expectancy in the United States
... Life expectancy at birth represents the average number of years a group of infants would live if they were to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates prevailing during a period. In 2021, life expectancy at birth was 76.1 years, declining by 0.9 year from 77.0 in 2020 (3). ... Excess deaths due to COVID-19 and other causes in 2020 and 2021 led to an overall decline in life expectancy between 2019 and 2021 of 2.7 years for the total population ..."
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