“ Cystic fibrosis once all but guaranteed an early death. In the 1930s, most babies born with CF died in infancy. The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5. In the ’70s, age 10. In the early 2000s, age 35. With Trikafta came a quantum leap.

“Today, those who begin taking the drug in early adolescence, a recent study projected, can expect to survive to age 82.5—a normal life span.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/cystic-fibrosis-trikafta-breakthrough-treatment/677471/