The Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments of 1962 coincide with a drop in the rate of life-span increase.
I believe that, but I couldn’t find a source. Do you remember where you got it from?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/ is the chart for the US lifespan. For the timeframe from 1880 to 1960 it looks like a straight line with the expection for the First World War / Spanish flu.
Our medical system is now so broken that lifespan dropped from 2015 to 2020.
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I believe that, but I couldn’t find a source. Do you remember where you got it from?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/ is the chart for the US lifespan. For the timeframe from 1880 to 1960 it looks like a straight line with the expection for the First World War / Spanish flu.
Our medical system is now so broken that lifespan dropped from 2015 to 2020.