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COVID-19 caused biggest decrease in life expectancy since WWII: Study

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II, and wiped out years of progress on mortality, according to a study published by the University of Oxford. The research team assembled an unprecedented dataset on mortality from 29 countries, spanning most of Europe, the US, and Chile - countries for which official death registrations for 2020 had been published.