"The thing that stands out to me is just this staggering decline," Dr. Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the NCHS, told ABC News."I know 1.
"The thing that stands out to me is just this staggering decline," Dr. Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the NCHS, told ABC News."I know 1.8 years doesn't seem like a whole lot but, on a population scale, that's a huge decline in life expectancy."This is the biggest decrease seen since World War II, when life expectancy fell by 2.9 years from 66.2 years in 1942 to 63.3 years in 1943.
Diabetes deaths topped 100,000 for the first time, Anderson said, and accidental or unintentional injury deaths, such as drug overdoses, topped 200,000. Of that 3.38 million, more than 350,000 deaths were attributed to COVID-19, meaning 10.4% of all deaths in 2020 were caused by the virus. Men saw a bigger decrease in life expectancy, losing 2.1 years -- from 76.3 in 2019 to 74.2 in 2020 -- compared to a decline of 1.5 years -- from 81.4 in 2019 to 79.9 in 2020 -- for women.COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020, responsible for 85 deaths per 100,000 people.
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