“Despite the availability of life-saving Covid-19 vaccines, so many people died in the second year of the pandemic in the U.S. that the nation’s life expectancy dropped for a second year in a row last year,” NPR reports.
U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for Second Year In a Row
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