Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the babies who die in the first year of life. So theres this huge, huge disparity and thats kind of business as usual.
Industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the babies who die in the first year of life. So theres this huge, huge disparity and thats kind
Industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the babies who die in the first year of life. So theres this huge, huge disparity and thats kind
Every year in america over 11 thousand babies die on the day that theyre born. Most are just born too early. Their vital organs, heart and lungs still unformed. Even those who survive beyond 24 hours often die before their first birthday. But if the baby is African American, they are more than twice as likely to die. Fault lines travels to cleveland, ohio to look at what is causing these deaths, and to try to find out why the United States has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistan
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