© Win McNamee via Getty ImagesDr. Robert Califf, Commissioner of the FDA
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf recently took to X to mourn the "
catastrophic" decline in U.S. life expectancy.
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. Yet public health agencies and medical societies are silent.Life insurers have been consistently sounding the alarm over these unexpected or, "excess," deaths, which claimed 158,000more Americans in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same period in 2019. That exceeds America's combined losses from every war since Vietnam. Congress should urgently work with insurance experts to investigate this troubling trend.
With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Instead, the death toll remains "
alarming," "
disturbing," and deserving of "
urgent attention," according to insurance industry articles.
Actuarial reports — used by insurers to inform decisions — show deaths occurring disproportionately among
young working-age people. 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."
Comment: As mentioned above, this is particularly notable because, also this year, Canada reported a 120% increase in HIV cases, whilst Singapore saw a 10% spike; the UK reported a rise of gonorrhea cases; and the US and Japan have seen record numbers of syphilis cases.
This also follows nearly 2 years of rolling lockdowns, where it's likely that there was actually a decline in sexual encounters.
Some medical authorities are attributing to the soaring number of cases to increased testing, whilst Australia's states that testing has actually reduced; regardless, there are other factors to consider, including mass migration (at least in the case of the US, UK, Canada, and Australia), but more importantly, the experimental covid injections which have been shown to significantly compromise the immunity of the recipient.
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