3 million deaths, 2020 deadliest year in USA history

Today, Thursday, US press reports revealed that the death rate in the United States of America (USA)  witnessed a record increase in 2020, making that year the bloodiest in the country's history.

According to a report published by "Politico"  a US newspaper, citing two senior administration officials, the death rate in the USA  jumped by 15% in 2020.

According to these officials, the United States has not recorded an increase in the number of deaths like this year since 1918, when hundreds of thousands of people died from the Spanish flu in the midst of World War I.

The officials considered that 2020 is the deadliest year in the history of the United States, as more than 3 million people died of various causes, including nearly half a million as a result of the Coronavirus ( also known as COVID-19).

The report stated that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States are racing to time to announce official results.

More than 528,000 people have died from COVID-9 in the United States, according to official records, and about 128,000 of those deaths occurred after Biden took office, according to the Politico report.

The report showed that the average life expectancy in the United States decreased by (a full year) as a result of the spread of the deadly virus, from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.8 years.

The report noted that during that time period, average life expectancy decreased by 0.8 years for non-Hispanic whites, 1.9 years for Hispanic inpiduals, and 2.7 years for non-Hispanic blacks.

US officials are finalizing a separate comprehensive report on mortality during the pandemic but are still working out reporting lags from state health agencies, according to Politico.

Although most of the states have submitted information to the health agency on more than 90 percent of virus deaths, several states are weeks behind schedule, according to another senior administration official. The federal government and state health departments across the country are also still working to analyze hundreds of thousands of “excess deaths” from over the past year—or the difference between the number of observed deaths in 2020 versus 2019.