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COVID-19 pandemic’s death toll could shorten life expectancy in US by as much as 3 years

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data released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as two to three years due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the CDC’s death statistics."We’ve had a lot of deaths added since August, so I think a drop of two to three years for 2020 isn’t out of the question," Anderson said, according to the Washington Post.

He said such a drop would mark the largest decline in U.S. life expectancy since World War II, when deaths pushed the metric down by 2.9 years in 1943, the paper reported.A medical staff member injects sodium bicarbonate into a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on.

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