Last year, the Make-a-Wish Foundation announced that kids with cystic fibrosis would no longer automatically qualify for a wish. This was, actually, a good thing—a great thing even!
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In 2019, a new drug called Trikafta came out. Within hours, people started coughing up all the mucus in their lungs. This was "the Purge." (Btw, I didn't get into this but the Purge wasn't just from the lungs. Think about all the other places in your body that have mucus...)
People who thought they were going to die young suddenly realized they might live a long time—decades longer. They went back to school, started dating, and opened 401ks for the first time. There was even a Trikafta baby boom.