The US infant mortality rate rose 3% last year—the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American.
It is not true that Japan has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world while the US has the highest, or that Japan does not vaccinate children under two.
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hmm. mississippi has the worst infant death rate in the country. not only is mississippi the worst in the country, if mississippi were a country, it would rank below sri lanka and below botswana. it would be 83rd in the world in terms of infant mortality. and if you look internally at what s going on in mississippi, what explains that problem, you end up very quickly realizing that the issue is in racial disparity. these are mississippi s own numbers. these are infant mortality for white mothers in mississippi. that s if infant mortality rate in mississippi over time. and this is the infant mortality rate, that red line there, for african-american mothers in mississippi. so white mothers in mississippi, they have roughly the same rate as the rest of the country. but the reason mississippi is the worst in the country, the reason mississippi has worst than botswana s infant mortality rate, is because african-american women have more than doubled the infant mortality rate of white women t