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Not the best source, but its at least illustrative of the point: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/ https://www

by 015a 2y ago

Not the best source, but its at least illustrative of the point: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...

tqi 2y ago
That other than 2020 (ie COVID), life expectancy has been continuously rising for the last 100 years?
- 015a 2y ago
  Its actually much scarier than that: the trend started reversing ~2017, COVID accelerated it, and it hasn't recovered post-COVID. Naturally, changes to any sufficiently complex system take years to truly manifest their impact in broad statistics; sometimes decades. But, don't discount this single line from the original article: > Then in 2018, the hospital bought a new program from Epic
  - tqi 2y ago
    How does that qualify as evidence that "outcomes have been getting worse for decades?"
    - 015a 2y ago
      I did not say it was evidence. I actually stated it was a quite poor source; but that it is at least illustrative of the point.
      - tqi 2y ago
        Of the point that outcomes have been getting worse for decades?