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  • PABLO PARDO

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Updated on Friday, February 19, 2021 - 05:25

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    The slow disaster for which there is no vaccine: "Since the Civil War we have not lost so much life expectancy"

Covid-19 has caused

the largest decrease in the average life expectancy of Americans since World War II

.

Only between January and June 2020, it fell in one year, from 78.8 to 77.8, that is, to the level of 14 years ago.

It is 12 months of average life that the coronavirus has taken ahead, although, broken down by sex and race, the figures are even worse.

Covid-19

has hit men more than women

, increasing the disparity in the average life expectancy of both.

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