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Avoidable deaths increased in the U.S. as they dropped elsewhere 

Compared with European Union countries and others, the United States is an outlier

A picture of an empty stretcher in an empty hospital corridor for a story on avoidable deaths

While avoidable deaths in the United States rose, on average, from 2009 to 2019, they trended down for European Union countries and others.

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By Aimee Cunningham

In the United States, the number of deaths that didn’t have to happen has risen over time.