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flag A viral claim linking COVID vaccines to Canada’s life expectancy drop is false; data shows pandemic deaths and opioid overdoses were the real causes.

flag A viral clip from a January 2024 Joe Rogan podcast falsely claimed the COVID-19 vaccine caused Canada’s life expectancy decline, which dropped to 81.7 years by 2023—the largest drop since 1921. flag Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada confirm the decline was driven by pandemic-related deaths and a sharp rise in opioid overdoses, not the vaccine. flag COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in 2020–2022, and opioid-related fatalities more than doubled from 2016 to 2024. flag Life expectancy began to recover in 2023, rising slightly but remaining below pre-pandemic levels. flag Health Canada found only four deaths causally linked to the vaccine out of 488 reported cases. flag No credible evidence supports the claim that the vaccine caused the drop.

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