#InfantMortality
Mississippi has had to declare a public health emergency due to the concerning increase in the infant mortality rate.

To put it into perspective, Dr Warren explained that this very concern increase in infant mortality rate translates to about 20,000 infant deaths a year.

#Pinks
#InfantMortality
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Republicans banned abortion in the name of life. Research links those bans to hundreds of excess infant deaths, and all 10 states with the highest infant mortality are Republican-led, led by Mississippi. Source: CDC and JAMA. #InfantMortality
June 22, 2026 at 3:25 AM
🪡Despite a ⬇️ in the overall #maternalmortality rate in the US from 32.9 deaths/100,000 live births in 2021 to 18.6 in 2023, rates for Black women remain unduly ⬆️ at 50.3 deaths/100,000 live births. Similarly, the #infantmortality rate for Black infants is 2.4 times higher than that for White infants
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Chart Week 🦈 📈 Day #5 Silver Linings & The 50 Year Newspaper #economy #poverty #infantmortality #lifeexpectancy
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
July 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Well timed with the release of #1926Census I'll be at #HSTM this Fri 24 April @unioflimerick.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mwr3kb6z discussing historical death records in #Ireland & recovering #MaternalMortality & #InfantMortality #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #MedHums #Skystorians #Demography
April 23, 2026 at 9:01 AM
#InfantMortality For every baby that dies in Finland, over four babies die in the US.

Finland 1.5 deaths per thousand births
US 6.5 deaths per thousand births

www.businessinsider.com/finland-give...
Finland's government gifts all new parents a 60-item baby starter kit, and it shows how the country is better than America at 'harmonious' capitalism
"The difference between Finland and America is that our Nordic friends have a much more harmonious marriage between democracy and capitalism."
www.businessinsider.com
December 22, 2024 at 2:18 PM
#US #InfantMortality

“A #civilization is measured by how it #treats its #weakest members”

-Gandhi

#Resistance ✌️
March 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#MiaFarrow: “Before #vaccines, for most of human history, ½ of all children did not survive to puberty.
The intro. of vaccines led to a dramatic decrease in child deaths. In the last 50 years #Immunization has decreased #InfantMortality by 40%
For warped reasons, #RFKJr wants more kids to die.”
Before vaccines, for most of human history, half of all children did not survive to puberty.
The introduction of vaccines led to a dramatic decrease in child deaths. In the last 50 years Immunization has decreased infant mortality by 40%
For warped reasons, RFKJr Jr wants more kids to die.
June 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sobering stats from the March of Dimes 2024 Report Card:

💟 U.S. preterm birth rate=10.4%

💟 Black birthing people are 1.4x MORE likely than the national avg to have a preemie

💟 >20,000 babies per year don’t reach their 1st bday

💟 The South & Midwest have the highest #infantmortality rates
www.marchofdimes.org
December 10, 2024 at 11:24 PM
If your stance is so “pro life,” why are more people dying? There is nothing pro “life” about forced continued pregnancy. #infantmortality #maternaldeathrate #prochoicewithheart
November 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
“In 1980, China’s #infantmortality rate was roughly five times that of the #UnitedStates. Today, it is about half that of the US.” #China open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
April 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
US funding cuts set to cause 23 million excess deaths in the poorest countries by 2030:

i-base.info/htb/53179

New @lancetgh.bsky.social paper predicts that 5.4 million of these will be children under 5.

#HIVsky #IDsky #GlobalHealth #GlobalAid #HIV #InfantMortality #malaria #LMICs #USAID #PEPFAR
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
#Anti-abortion proponents don't care who they cause pain and suffering to. There is nothing humane in their warped philosophy.
#infantmortality
Who would've thunk that GOP-led "pro-life" laws restricting access to reproductive healthcare are actually deadly? States w/abortion bans are reporting a marked increase in infant deaths. And unsurprisingly, poor women & women of color & their infants have higher rates of death & complications.
Infant Mortality Spikes Under Abortion Bans
2.13.25
jessica.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Is there anything worse than a child dying of cancer when it was preventable?" asked one observer.
US Embargo Blamed as Cuba Infant Mortality Soars
The Trump administration's economic embargo on Cuba is causing a devastating rise in infant mortality rates. How many more innocent lives must be lost in the name of political agendas? The socialist government may have outlasted US presidents, but at what cost to its people? #Cuba #InfantMortality
www.commondreams.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
#InfantMortality For every baby that dies in Finland, over four babies die in the US.

Finland 1.5 deaths per thousand births
US 6.5 deaths per thousand...
December 22, 2024 at 6:53 AM
“Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology” by Deirdre Cooper Owens #history #Blackhistory #neverforget #reproductivejustice #Blackmistreatment #accesstohealthcare #pregnancies #abortion #maternalmortality #infantmortality #booksky
February 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
🧪 wow, this is getting complicated

#azithromycin did not ⬇️ #InfantMortality

Designed to test WHO “conditional guidelines… consideration of mass administration of azithromycin to infants 1 to 11 months of age in high-mortality settings”

Extremely well-reported

Beware #SubgroupAnalysis
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“And the Poor get Children:sex, contraception and family planning in the working class” by Lee Rainwater #reproductivejustice #contraception #pregnantbodies #barriers #poverty #accesstohealthcare #maternalmortality #WomenofColor #languagesnotEnglish #infantmortality #resist #booksky #skybook
March 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🇮🇳 India’s #InfantMortality rate was 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, down from 30 in 2019. Why? In part to the rapid rise in births attended by a #midwife, nurse or doctor. The percentage of live births in government or private hospitals increased from 83% in 2019 to more than 95% in 2024.
July 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM