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MeringueSuccessful33 on September 15, 2025 2:29 pm TLDR: Over the course of the 20th century alone, the average lifespan of Americans [increased](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4812.pdf) by more than 30 years. In 1900, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrheal disease [caused](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/191692) roughly one-third of all American deaths — and 30 percent of those deaths [were in children under 5](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/). In fact, as of 1915, an unimaginable one in 10 babies in the US [died before their first birthday,](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/#:~:text=In%201900%2C%2030%20percent%20of,1999b;%20NCHS%2C%202001a).) just in case you still think today’s children are the sickest ever As late as the 1950s, some 16,000 Americans a year — most of them children — were [stricken with paralytic polio](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio). Today, just a fraction of Americans [die from infectious disease](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infectious-and-parasitic-diseases-death-rate-who-mdb?country=~USA). Diseases like polio are a thing of the past thanks to vaccines, and the more recent contagion of HIV — which [killed nearly half a million Americans](https://hopeandhelp.org/hiv-aids-is-not-the-death-sentence-it-once-was-heres-why/#:~:text=Treatments%20were%20in%20their%20infancy,died%20of%20AIDS%2Drelated%20illnesses.) between the early 1980s and the late 1990s — has now become a manageable condition thanks to [amazing advances in antiviral treatments](https://www.kff.org/hiv-aids/the-hiv-aids-epidemic-in-the-united-states-the-basics/#:~:text=Initially%2C%20HIV%2Drelated%20mortality%20rates,also%20to%20decreasing%20HIV%20incidence.). As deaths from infectious disease dropped over the last century, Americans have increasingly begun to die from noninfectious diseases like [heart attacks](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24811552/) and %5Bcancer%5D(https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.11380#:~:text=Trends%20may%20reflect%20changes%20in,successfully%2C%20decreased%20cancer%20death%20rates.). In a way, this was a sign of health success !ping health-policy
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Over the course of the 20th century alone, the average lifespan of Americans [increased](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4812.pdf) by more than 30 years.
In 1900, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrheal disease [caused](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/191692) roughly one-third of all American deaths — and 30 percent of those deaths [were in children under 5](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/).
In fact, as of 1915, an unimaginable one in 10 babies in the US [died before their first birthday,](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/#:~:text=In%201900%2C%2030%20percent%20of,1999b;%20NCHS%2C%202001a).) just in case you still think today’s children are the sickest ever
As late as the 1950s, some 16,000 Americans a year — most of them children — were [stricken with paralytic polio](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio).
Today, just a fraction of Americans [die from infectious disease](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infectious-and-parasitic-diseases-death-rate-who-mdb?country=~USA). Diseases like polio are a thing of the past thanks to vaccines, and the more recent contagion of HIV — which [killed nearly half a million Americans](https://hopeandhelp.org/hiv-aids-is-not-the-death-sentence-it-once-was-heres-why/#:~:text=Treatments%20were%20in%20their%20infancy,died%20of%20AIDS%2Drelated%20illnesses.) between the early 1980s and the late 1990s — has now become a manageable condition thanks to [amazing advances in antiviral treatments](https://www.kff.org/hiv-aids/the-hiv-aids-epidemic-in-the-united-states-the-basics/#:~:text=Initially%2C%20HIV%2Drelated%20mortality%20rates,also%20to%20decreasing%20HIV%20incidence.).
As deaths from infectious disease dropped over the last century, Americans have increasingly begun to die from noninfectious diseases like [heart attacks](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24811552/) and %5Bcancer%5D(https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.11380#:~:text=Trends%20may%20reflect%20changes%20in,successfully%2C%20decreased%20cancer%20death%20rates.). In a way, this was a sign of health success
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