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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 8 months ago

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By the 2010s, the rate had declined to 1,073 per 100,000 for Black infants and 499 per 100,000 for white infants, yet the disparity grew to a mortality ratio of 2.15.

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There are localized efforts to remediate this, https://www.mamacertified.org/ for example.

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