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COVID cuts US life expectancy, with minorities hit hardest
The COVID-19 pandemic's effect on US life expectancy has disproportionately hit minorities, according to new studies in BMJ and JAMA Network Open, with the former finding that overall US life expectancy—which dropped almost 2 years from 2018 to 2020—hasn't been this low since 1943, during World War II.