Demographers put COVID-19 death toll into perspective

ScienceDaily
Aug 25, 2020, 4:05 pm157 pts
With over 170,000 COVID-19 deaths to date, and 1,000 more each day, America's life expectancy may appear to be plummeting. But in estimating the magnitude of the pandemic, demographers have found that COVID-19 is likely to shorten the average US lifespan in 2020 by only about a year.

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