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A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.
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Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.
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The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.
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Overall, U.S. life expectancy dipped in 2015 — the first drop since 1993. That's because the death rate went up between 2014 and 2015, driven by an increase in mortality among people younger than 65.
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Your life expectancy depends a lot on where you live—down to the very neighborhood, according to a new analysis from Virginia Commonwealth University and…