On Nov. 13, 2023, the Journal JAMA reported evidence that showed COVID-19 had widened the gendered life expectancy gap between American women and men. The research was published n JAMA Internal Medicine.

In 2010, US women were expected to live 4.8 years longer than male counterparts, but by 2021 that gap increased to 5.8 years. From 2010 to 2019, the gender life expectancy gap increase by only 0.23 years. From 2019 and 2021 it increased by 0.70 years.

The study was based on mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics, and it compared life expectancy at birth between men and women from 2010 to 2021, divided by preﾖ and postﾖCOVID-19 year, and cause-specific mortality.