https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm
In 2017, life expectancy at birth was 78.6 years for the total U.S. population—a decrease from 78.7 years in 2016 (Figure 1). For males, life expectancy changed from 76.2 in 2016 to 76.1 in 2017. For females, life expectancy remained the same at 81.1.
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From 2016 to 2017, age-adjusted death rates increased for 7 of 10 leading causes of death and decreased for 1 (Figure 4). The rate increased 4.2% for unintentional injuries, 0.7% for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 0.8% for stroke, 2.3% for Alzheimer disease, 2.4% for diabetes, 5.9% for influenza and pneumonia, and 3.7% for suicide. The rate decreased 2.1% for cancer. Rates for heart disease and kidney disease did not change significantly.
Media reports have been focusing on drug overdoses and suicides, on which reports were released on the same day as the one about decreasing life expectancy:
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3 years in a row of a decrease in life expectancy, which hasn’t happened since WW1 and the flu pandemic just after it. Very sad.