COVID-19 and overdoses are the main drivers behind the record number of deaths, new data shows
deaths, because it can take weeks of lab work and investigation to identify them. But provisional data through October suggests the nation is on track to see at least 105,000 overdose deaths in 2021 — up from 93,000 the year before.
Joseph Friedman, a UCLA researcher who was the paper’s lead author, called the spike “unprecedented.” The total number of U.S. deaths often increases year to year as the U.S. population grows. But 2020 and 2021 saw extraordinary jumps in death numbers and rates, due largely to the pandemic. Those researchers think U.S. life expectancy dropped another five or six months in 2021 — putting it back to where it was 20 years ago.One study looked at death data in the U.S. and 19 other high-income countries. The U.S. fared the worst.
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