US Life Expectancy Continues Historic Decline With Another Drop In 2021, Study Finds

(CNN) — Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the largest since World War II, according to a new report.
The study — published Thursday on the preprint server medRxiv, which means it has not been peer-reviewed — found that after falling nearly 1.9 years in 2020, life expectancy in the US decreased another 0.4 years in 2021.
In the decade before the pandemic, life expectancy in the US changed by an average