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Why We're Living Longer

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COVID Death Rates - What's Our Life Expectancy Right Now?

If mortality rates had stayed what they were a century ago, we wouldn't have climate change. The fastest growing age cohort in countries like the United States are people who live into their hundreds. And that was just really, really unusual 100 years ago or 200 years ago.

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