Overall U.S. life expectancy fell to 76.6 years in 2021 — the lowest in at least 25 years, and the second year in a row it’s dropped.

So many Americans died in the second year of the pandemic that the overall U.S. life expectancy fell to 76.6 years in 2021 — the lowest in at least 25 years, and the second year in a row it's dropped. https://t.co/3PLuQnrkA9

— NPR (@NPR) April 8, 2022

You see how they are spinning it but come to your own conclusions.

h/t BFD