The Summary

  • U.S. life expectancy jumped to 78.4 years last year, the highest it has been since 2019, before the pandemic.
  • A decline in Covid deaths was a primary factor in the upward trend. Covid fell from the fourth-leading cause of death in 2022 to the 10th in 2023.
  • Drug overdose deaths also decreased last year.
  • Drusas
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    64 days ago

    This is positive but completely non news. Of course Covid deaths are going down; everybody has antibodies to it now.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 days ago

      Yep. And the most vulnerable people are already dead, including several of my mentors and relatives.

      We made the inevitable progress, the way a boulder rolls down a hill during a rock slide.

      Oh well. I’m giving us a gold star for this, anyway. We need a win. We do deserve a round of COVID participation trophys, anyway.

  • sunzu2
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    -23 days ago

    This propaganda is pathetic anyone with half a brain can check the numbers especially in context of other OECD countries.

    Doesn’t the alleged manifesto mention this?

    Are the parasites scared?

    They should be, never know if there is a copycap lurking