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Credit unsplash Michigan has achieved its lowest infant mortality rate in the state s recorded history, according to an announcement this week by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Infant mortality is the death of an infant before reaching the age of one.  The newly released data shows an infant mortality rate of 6.4 deaths for every 1,000 live births in 2019. That s down from a rate of 8.5 per thousand in 2003. While MDHHS reported a significant drop in disparties between Black and white infant death rates, Black babies still die at a substantially higher rate.  Black infants died at 2.6 times the rate of white infants in 2019, compared to 3.2 in 2018. In 2019, the Black infant mortality rate was 12.9 deaths for every 1,000 live births, while the white infant mortality rate was 4.9.

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