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   Eric Topol (erictopol@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:45:00 JST Eric Topol

   Beyond ~30 million excess deaths, "The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most severe drops in life expectancy seen in 50+ years."
   https://healthdata.org/research-analysis/library/mortality-life-expectancy-and-population
   
   https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00476-8/fulltext

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     Andrew Boa (anboa4@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:45:27 JST Andrew Boa

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     @DimitriFayolle @erictopol the dip was in the Asia line only, so probably not Stalin. And there was a big famine in rural China in the early 60s which killed 30M plus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward). So I put 2 and 2 together.

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     Andrew Boa (anboa4@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:45:29 JST Andrew Boa

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     @DimitriFayolle @erictopol Mao's "Great Leap Forward"

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     Dimimore "spicy falafel"🧪🚲😷 (dimitrifayolle@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:45:29 JST Dimimore "spicy falafel"🧪🚲😷

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     @anboa4 @erictopol Oh. I thought Mao + Stalin + various wars around the world etc, all over several decades would have smoothed the thing out a bit.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Dimimore "spicy falafel"🧪🚲😷 (dimitrifayolle@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:45:30 JST Dimimore "spicy falafel"🧪🚲😷

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     @erictopol What's the huge drop around 1960 for?