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I’m sorry, but I don’t see the relevance of your question.

Does it somehow make it less relevant to fix a cause of death because more people die of other unrelated causes?

Far more people die in accidents than any other causes of death in the U.S., seemingly only beat by cancer and heart disease. That doesn’t make every other cause of death any less troubling or worth fixing, and it certainly does not mean that one should hold back existing treatments for “lesser” deaths or injuries.

Any avoidable injury or premature death is one too many.




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