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by Traubenfuchs 1096 days ago
I think it would be better for the quality of discourse if people online would stop going into discussions about numbers like this without easily googleable sources.

Meta analysis from end of 2021:

https://n.neurology.org/content/97/23/e2304

"The median survival age from the pre-1970 birth cohort was 18.3 years (95% CI 18.0, 18.9) compared to 24.0 years in the 1970 to 1990 birth cohort (95% CI 22.8, 25.0) and 28.1 years in the post-1990 birth cohort (95% CI 25.1, 30.3)."

"The cohort analysis is also likely to represent a comparison of ventilated and nonventilated patients because ventilation was introduced in many clinical settings only in the 1990s."