https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/covid-life-expectancy.html?referringSource=articleShare
From the NYTimes
Life expectancy is the most basic measure of the health of a population, and the stark decline over such a short period is highly unusual and a signal of deep distress. The drop comes after a troubling series of smaller declines driven largely by a surge in drug overdose deaths. A fragile recovery over the past two years has now been wiped out.