Life expectancy in the US fell by a full year in the first half of 2020, a change experts say was fuelled by the growing coronavirus pandemic.
The life expectancy for the entire population dropped to 77.8 years, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control.
"This is a huge decline," Dr Robert Anderson, the CDC's Chief of Mortality Statistics, told the Associated Press.
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