CDC data shows rate rose 3% last year but experts say they are not sure why statistic that has been falling should have risen sharply
  • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Okay sly comments, and angry posting aside.

    It’s obvious this is because infants that would have been declared beyond help and therefore subject to abortion, are now being forced to be born and then die.

    But I’m sure the Republicans who caused this will find a way to twist it into having nothing to do with their decisions whatsoever, and that it’s actually the fault of the Democrats or Biden specifically.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    18·
    1 year ago

    In numbers, US infant deaths surpassed 20,500 in 2022 – 610 more than the year before nationwide. But Georgia had 116 more infant deaths than the year before, and Texas had 251 more.

    “It would appear that some of the states could be having a larger impact on the [national] rate,” Ely said, adding that smaller increases elsewhere also have an effect – and that it’s hard to parse out exactly what places, policies or other factors are behind the national statistic.

    While I applaud scientists for not jumping to conclusions (that’s how you get pseudoscience), I bet they have some good hypotheses…

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The US infant mortality rate rose 3% last year – the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The CDC’s report, published Wednesday, also noted larger increases for two of the leading causes of infant deaths – maternal complications and bacterial meningitis.

    RSV and flu infections rebounded last fall after two years of pandemic precautions, filling pediatric emergency rooms across the country.

    “That could potentially account for some of it,” said Eichenwald, who chairs an American Academy of Pediatrics committee that writes guidelines for medical care of newborns.

    The US infant mortality rate has been worse than other high-income countries, which experts have attributed to poverty, inadequate prenatal care and other possibilities.

    Overall in the US, the death rate fell 5% in 2022 – a general decrease that has been attributed to the waning impact of the Covid pandemic, especially on people 65 and older.

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  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    62·
    1 year ago

    The oligarchs that control our government and all major media: Make us more wage slave capital batteries!

    Peasant: Improve our quality of life so we can afford to have them and know they’ll have a life worth living!

    Oligarchs: Fuck you! They will have it even worse! In fact, let’s give you even shittier health insurance to make more for ourselves right now. Now go make us more wage slave capital batteries!

    Peasant: My baby died because of my race to the bottom employer healthcare.

    Oligarchs: Wow. How could you be so irresponsible to have such shitty insurance to give birth with? See? This is why you stupid peasants don’t deserve decent quality of life, you keep making bad decisions. Now go make us more wage slave capital batteries, and don’t fuck it up this time, peasant, my little brat will need livestock to exploit.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    87·
    1 year ago

    I put this on Obama.

    We had the opportunity to go full nationalized health care and we didn’t take it because ‘moderation’.

    Now we pay more than ever before and get less than ever before.

    Thanks Obama.

    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      He could have never passed a full nationalized healthcare system. I think getting what we did was a miracle by American standards.

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      Obama believed and still believes the system is sick and must be repaired. He’s an institutionalist balls to bones. It’s almost a religious faith to institutionalists.

      The reality is the system is working exactly as intended, especially after the Reaganomics/Jack Welch upgrade made it immune to even tangentially possible repair half a century ago, and will either have to be destroyed through revolution, or more likely as we’re propagandized from birth to defend our own subjugation, collapse under the weight of its own self-created crises before circumstances can improve here.

      Modern Americans have been clear, the supply chain of their subsistence opiates (social media/fast food/literal opiates/etc) are far more important than a decent future for their children, so we or whichever generation draws the short straw will have to learn the hard way as we limp along running this system designed to elevate a few off the suffering and exploitation of the many deluded into working against their own interests.