I'm pretty sure the article intends that to just be a demonstration of where progress in the entire field of anti-aging is at.
That being said, it's probably not in a submarine (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html) article about European VC firms's best interest to start off by hyping an Israeli development.
Well observed. If you read carefully you'll see that the article is structured to first talk about progress happening around the world, then how European companies are falling behind in general, and then about which European companies are doing well.
Healthcare spending is something of a mystery. Two examples: there's a huge epidemic of allergies happening under our noses, and no one seems to be paying it any mind. Coronaviruses were known to be problematic years ago, and no one bothered to invest in prevention.
I guess there aren't enough researches (or money) to go around...
Healthcare systems have basically been subjected to nonstop austerity since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. We shouldn't let our governments forget how badly they underprepared us for the challenges of the 21st century by refusing to tackle the faults of the 20th-century political economy. https://www.journalstandard.com/news/20200513/sitting-in-fre...
As a European, I wish we had access to services like "measuring your DNA methylation clock from a blood sample". This can be done affordably in USA / Canada, but not in the EU.
IDK if it is even legally possible to create an EU-wide consumer service like that, with blood samples moving across the borders. In some aspects, the single market isn't as single as we need.
>For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease.
I wonder how they count covid deaths in this.
Maybe covid deaths with no co-morbidities = infectious, covid deaths with co-morbidities = specific co-morbidity?
The annual number of age-related deaths seems to be around 10X the number of COVID deaths (so far), so the distinction likely doesn't have any bearing on the veracity of the statement.
Global deaths by age-related issues in 2017: >20 million[0]
Covid isn't deadly enough by a longshot. 100% of the people on this planet will die, if the entire planet got infected only 0.28% would die of covid. of the 99.72% that is not going to die of covid, 16% are going to get heart disease as cause of death.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 53.3 ms ] threadThat's... not in Europe.
That being said, it's probably not in a submarine (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html) article about European VC firms's best interest to start off by hyping an Israeli development.
Israel is in the Eurovision Song Contest.
> European VC is falling behind (for now)
I guess there aren't enough researches (or money) to go around...
https://agingbiotech.info/companies
IDK if it is even legally possible to create an EU-wide consumer service like that, with blood samples moving across the borders. In some aspects, the single market isn't as single as we need.
I wonder how they count covid deaths in this.
Maybe covid deaths with no co-morbidities = infectious, covid deaths with co-morbidities = specific co-morbidity?
Global deaths by age-related issues in 2017: >20 million[0]
Global deaths due to COVID: ~2.1 million.[1]
[0]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-70-yea...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...