{"id":18522,"date":"2021-07-22T08:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18522"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:10:17","slug":"cdc-us-life-expectancy-saw-biggest-decline-in-decades-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18522","title":{"rendered":"CDC: US life expectancy saw biggest decline in decades amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>U.S. life expectancy fell to 77.3 years in 2020, marking a 1.5 year drop from 78.8 years in 2019, according to a July 21 CDC report. It&#8217;s the largest one-year drop since World War II.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/cdc-us-life-expectancy-saw-biggest-decline-in-decades-amid-pandemic.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9071\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-300x40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-768x102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) U.S. life expectancy fell to 77.3 years in 2020, marking a 1.5 year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18524,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions\/18524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}