and to try to find out why the united states has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s 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 haven t 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 cont
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. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s 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 haven t changed one aspect of this crisis. almost all of the ba
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. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s 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 haven t 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
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. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s 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 haven t changed one aspect of this crisis. almost all of the babies in this ward are bl
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. it s monday morning in cleveland s metrohealth hospital. a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the nicu . weighing just over 2 pounds, he s 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. he s really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. they re right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that s 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 haven t 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