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It works the other way around, too. Currently, the top 5 causes of death in the US are, in descending order, heart disease, cancer, COVID, accident, and stroke
by Paul-Craft 3y ago
It works the other way around, too.
Currently, the top 5 causes of death in the US are, in descending order, heart disease, cancer, COVID, accident, and stroke. If you could wave a magic wand and make it so that nobody ever died of heart disease anymore, those people would still die eventually of something else. So, curing 100% of all heart disease would actually cause more people to die of cancer, COVID, accident, stroke, etc.
- flakeoil 3y agoCOVID is probably just a short term anomaly and not a major cause of death going forward. COVID was probably also a cause of death that decreased some of the other death causes.