Why Are So Many Americans Dying Early?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But his post, which hit on smoking, diet, chronic illness and health care, ignored the obvious: People are dying in abnormally high numbers even now and long since COVID waned.

Nonetheless, America’s chief health manager, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opted in September to archive its excess deaths webpage with a note stating, “these datasets will no longer be updated.”

To some extent, we know what is killing the young, with an actuarial analysis of government data showing mortality increases in liver, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.

“With each passing week of the COVID inquiry,” the BBC reported recently, “it is clear there were deep flaws in the way decisions were made and information provided during the pandemic.”

Lockdowns limited access to education, social interaction and healthcare with documented harm to childhood development, mental health and the economy.

Treatment protocols dictated how doctors should deliver COVID care — primarily in hospitals and with expensive medicines — and limited early access to generic drugs that might have helped.

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“Indemnity experts are urging the adoption of an early-warning program to detect looming health problems among people with life insurance and keep them alive.”

Stay classy, insurance industry.

This is the second time this year I've seen insurance companies leading the charge on public health issues (the first being climate change and home insurers in Florida).

It's interesting to watch The Free Market be, at once, so ineffective and effective.

Edit: department of redundancy department.

This is written by the anti-vax, ivermectin guy. Doesn't say anything useful, then says all the COVID decisions were wrong.