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American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
There's a really good chart on this in today's WSJ, but not in the online version, so I can't "borrow" it to show it here. If I remember correctly, the life expectancy for a US male is now down to 73 years. So enjoy your retirement- all eight years of it.
From the original source (CDC data) of @LewisBranham’s article above. The leading causes are COVID-19 and drug overdose deaths. Surprising that COVID related death ranks #2 since the pandemic started.
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Further breakdown of the data is in Figures 1 and 2.
https://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7117e1-H.pdf
https://cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db457.pdf