Actuaries group rebuts CDC data showing dip in life expectancy

A new public policy paper released by the American Academy of Actuaries cautions that clarification may be needed regarding data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on estimated life expectancy decreases measured during the COVID-19 pandemic, Planadvisor reports. The CDC report, based on deaths during 2020, suggested that Americans had lost a year and a half of life expectancy due to the pandemic. The CDC’s methodology and estimated decrease assume that the heightened mortality of the pandemic during 2020 will persist indefinitely, which the Academy says is an unlikely scenario.