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July 21, 2021 - 1:46pm | By Kyle Cornell
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. life expectancy is down because of the pandemic.
A new CDC study says the average life expectancy fell by a year-and-a-half in 2020. The agency says this is primarily because of deaths related to COVID-19.
Based on its latest data, the report says U.S. life expectancy at birth was 77-point-three years, which is down from 78-point-eight years in 2019.
The report says Hispanic people experienced the largest decline in life expectancy.