Neil DeGrasse Tyson on science and medicine expanded life expectancy

[bronxiteforever]

https://youtube.com/shorts/pg2O6a7yrkg?si=InOWsXLumQkRJgk4

[StarryNite]

1. Right on Neil.

[nitpicked]

2. From a CDC report on US life expectancy Table 13

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr69/nvsr69-12-508.pdf

1900: 47.3 years
1910: 50.0 years
1920: 54.1 years
1930: 59.7 years
1940: 62.9 years
1950: 68.2 years
1960: 69.7 years
1970: 70.8 years
1980: 73.7 years
1990: 75.4 years
2000: 76.8 years
2010: 78.7 years

There was a dip thanks to COVID. The latest available figures show

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

2023: 78.4 years

((I think the great leap forward from 1940 to 1950 was due to the availability of penicillin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin

(snip)

After the end of the war in 1945, penicillin became widely available. Dorothy Hodgkin determined its chemical structure, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. This led to the development of semisynthetic penicillins that were more potent and effective against a wider range of bacteria.
(snip) ))