Between drug overdoses and COVID cases, more Americans died in 2020 than in any time in history since World War II. The CDC released the data July 21, 2021, showing that American life expectancy dropped to 77.3 years.
The CDC reported that COVID was the third-leading cause of death in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer, with Hispanics and Blacks seeing the steepest declines in life expectancy.
However, as ZeroHedge noted, “Life expectancy in the U.S. has been declining for years, thanks largely to the surge in drug overdoses and other drug- and alcohol-related deaths, along with rising rates of deadly heart disease in middle-aged Americans.”
SOURCE: ZeroHedge July 21, 2021