1 month ago | By KCCI

When combined with provisional estimates of U.S. death rates for the first half of the year, the data shows a clear rise in the mortality rate as the pandemic took hold of the nation.
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COVID-19 will shorten American life expectancy, study shows

1 month ago | By New York Post

The coronavirus pandemic will shorten the life expectancy at birth for Americans by about a year due to the more than 336,000 deaths from the illness in the US in 2020, according to new research.
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Coronavirus will knock more than a year off average US life expectancy, study finds