U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.
Despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, so many people died in the second year of the pandemic in the U.S. that the nation's life expectancy dropped for a second year in a row last year, according to a new analysis.
The analysis of provisional government statistics found U.S. life expectancy fell by just under a half a year in 2021, adding to a dramatic plummet in life expectancy that
