I saw this other life-expectancy-related story a a while ago, and there are probably COVID-related reasons, but I’m surprised this hasn’t got more publicity:

> China's life expectancy is now higher than that of the US [1].

Here’s a slightly deeper dive into this story [2].

[1] https://qz.com/china-life-expectancy-exceeds-us-1849483265

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-life-expectancy-birth-2021...