Has U.S. Life Expectancy Really Reached Its Lowest Point Since 1996?

A distrubing new report from the the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has the life span of Americans getting shorter.

August 31, 2022
Candace J. Dixon

Life expectancy was age 79 in 2019, and has fallen to age 76.1 in 2021. According to CDC data, the coronavirus was the primary reason for half the drop, between 2020 and 2021. Up to 74% of the decline was found to between…