PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – While Virginia is still on par with a typical flu season, influenza and COVID-19 infection rates are spiking about two weeks later than usual, according to Tracey ...

Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic ... said Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Virginia Commonwealth ...

Average life expectancy in the U.S. increased by almost a year in 2023, rebounding to a level not reached since the COVID-19 pandemic ... pre-pandemic life expectancy," said Dr. Steven Woolf ...

U.S. life expectancy increased significantly in 2023, reaching 78.4 years, the highest level since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ... Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Virginia ...

To the surprise of the study authors, rates of young adult deaths started rising before COVID-19 came to the United States, ...

"There was a concern that we would have trouble rebounding to pre-pandemic life expectancy," said Dr. Steven Woolf ... and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, who said the new longevity ...