Canada's statistics agency reported residents' estimated life expectancy at birth fell in 2022, but claims made on the popular

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podcast that this decrease was due to Covid-19 vaccines are false. Statistics Canada and public health experts attribute the trend to deaths from opioid overdoses, chronic conditions and fatalities from Covid-19 infections.

"Canada's overall life expectancy -- that might be the craziest statistic in the world right now," says comedian Tony Hinchcliffe on a January 2, 2024 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, which AFP has previously fact-checked for spreading misinformation.

Rogan and Hinchcliffe go on to claim that "booster and booster" caused Canadian life expectancy to decrease beginning in 2020.

Footage of the conversation spread across the internet -- particularly video platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube -- where it received tens of thousands of views, while users attached images, captions and comments which implied a connection between a decrease in Canadian life expectancy and Covid-19 vaccines.

The posts are the latest examples of false and misleading claims about purported harmful effects of Covid-19 vaccines, which according to researchers have saved millions of lives and averted many hospitalizations.

In November 2023, the Canadian government's data collection agency, Statistics Canada, released a report which announced the life expectancy at birth in the country had decreased for the...

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