The CDC also found that life expectancy for Black Americans and Hispanic Americans last year fell even more sharply — three years — chiefly because of the virus. .
COVID-19 also reduced life expectancy for women in most of the countries that were studied, although typically women experienced a smaller decline than menIn the U.S., for instance, life expectancy for females at birth dropped by almost 1.7 years — a smaller decline than for American men
But that still represents the largest decline in life expectancy for women among any country in the study.
In 2020, only men and women in Denmark and Norway, as well as women in Finland, did not see a drop in life expectancy, the Oxford study found.