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by randcraw 3541 days ago
Wow. Such a bold indefensible statement. By any chance, are you running for President?

Children with infections might beg to differ with you. Or people with hypertension. Or coronary disease. Or HIV. Or diabetes. Or organ transplants. The lives of many millions like these added decades due to drugs.

The impact of vaccines on increasing life expectancy is simply staggering, and vaccines are virtually indistinguishable from biologic drugs.

Literally BILLIONS of people live for decades longer and better because of drugs.

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> Wow. Such a bold indefensible statement. By any chance, are you running for President? [...] Literally BILLIONS of people live for decades longer and better because of drugs.

Too dumb to use Google?:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8007898