Demographers put COVID-19 death toll into perspective
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 15:41
in Health & Medicine
With over 170,000 COVID-19 deaths to date, and 1,000 more each day, America's life expectancy may appear to be plummeting. But in estimating the magnitude of the pandemic, demographers have found that COVID-19 is likely to shorten the average US lifespan in 2020 by only about a year.