Life Expectancy in br US Drops by a Full Year, Most Since World War II.br The staggering estimated br fall of U.S. life expectancy br was reported on Thursday br by the Centers for Disease br Control and Prevention (CDC).br This is a huge decline. You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this, Robert Anderson, CDC, via AP News.br Health experts say that while the drop br in life expectancy is largely due to deaths br caused specifically by COVID-19 in 2020, .br it is also due to deaths from other causes br that were impacted by COVID-19, br such as heart disease and cancer.br Minorities suffered the most br significant drops in life expectancy br with Black Americans losing br almost three years.br and Hispanic Americans br losing nearly two years.br What is really quite striking in these numbers is that they only reflect the first half of the year ... I would expect that these numbers would only br get worse, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, UC San Francisco, br via AP News.br In 2020, more than three million br people died in the U.S.