Life expectancy in the United States in 2019, before Covid was, on average for all ethnicities, 79 years, but by the end of 2021, a year into the Covid vax rollout, life expectancy had dropped by three years to 76 years. According to a National Institutes of Health paper; “An estimated 936,911 excess deaths occurred during 2020 and 2021, of which 171,168 (18.3%) were not assigned to COVID-19 on death certificates as an underlying cause of death ...
The proportion of excess deaths assigned to COVID-19 was lower in 2020 (76.3%) than in 2021 (87.0%), suggesting that a larger fraction of excess deaths was assigned to COVID-19 later in the pandemic. However, in rural areas and in the Southeast and Southwest a large share of excess deaths was still not assigned to COVID-19 during 2021 ...