Study projects coronavirus pandemic will reduce US life expectancy in 2020
CNN — The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it’s also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. Consequently, Covid-19 is expected to reverse over 10 years of progress made in closing the Black−White gap in life expectancy and reduce the previous Latino mortality advantage by over 70%,” according to the researchers of the study, Theresa Andrasfay of the University of Southern California and Noreen Goldman of Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. These projections imply an increase of nearly 40% in the Black−White life expectancy gap, from 3.6 years to over 5 years, thereby eliminating progress made in reducing this differential since 2006,” the study added. “The US reduction in 2020 life expectancy is projected to exceed that of most other high-income countries, indicating that the United States – which already had a life expectancy below that of all other high-income developed nations prior to the pandemic – will see its life expectancy fall even farther behind its peers,” the study said. “Some reduction in life expectancy may persist beyond 2020 because of continued Covid-19 mortality and long-term health, social, and economic impacts of the pandemic,” the study added.
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