Those who died in 2020 reflected long-running disparities in access to care and health outcomes that the pandemic further revealed and worsened. While people ages 85 or more died more frequently than the rest of the population, people aged 35-44 were prone to the biggest increase in death rates. Looking across age groups, death rates increased for all people in the U.S. “When you have a pandemic that creates such a disruptive effect on people’s lives, you’re going to see deaths directly from the virus, as well as cascading deaths that occur because of the disruptions that occurred to normal health,” Adalja said. The last time this drop happened was in 1943 as a result of lives lost during World War II, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the mortality statistics branch of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Following the 1918 influenza pandemic, life expectancy fell by 11 years. This is not the first time that new health threats have dramatically altered the average U.S. Amesh Adalja, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Center of Health Security. The coronavirus pandemic upset that steady trend, said Dr. Improved access to health care was showing marginal but long-term benefits. For example, in 2019, the average American was expected to live a tenth of a year longer than in the previous year. life expectancy normally move at a more glacial pace – at incremental tenths of a year.
Here are four takeaways on the tectonic shift in American longevity. One bright spot in the data: Despite the average American living a shorter life and millions forgoing health care out of fear of catching or spreading the coronavirus, the infant mortality rate fell 2.9 percent to a record low. than in the previous year, for a total of more than 3.3 million, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. There were nearly 529,000 more deaths in the U.S. To produce these findings, researchers gathered and analyzed the nation’s death certificates, tallying up how many people died and the underlying cause of each death.
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