Other contributors to the decline are long-standing problems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease.
U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday., the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.
Experts say there are many possible reasons for such differences, including lack of access to quality health care, lower vaccination rates and a greater share of the population in lower-paying jobs that required them to keep working when the pandemic was at its worst. Covid deaths were the main reason for the decline. The second largest contributor was deaths from accidental injuries — primarily from drug overdoses, which killed a record-breaking 107,000 people in America last year.
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