Let me repost a previous post when this apparent vaccination and infant mortality rate correlation was posted
44210753US infant mortality. Maybe have a read of this before you take Menta's apparent correlation is causation fantasy as fact.https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htmLearn about infant mortality in the United States, including causes and differences in rates among population groups.
About Infant Mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. In addition to giving us key information about maternal and infant health, the infant mortality rate is an important marker of the overall health of a society. In 2017, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. (See Mortality in the United States, 2017).
Causes of Infant Mortality
Over 22,000 infants died in the United States in 2017. The five leading causes of infant death in 2017 were:
- Birth defects.
- Preterm birth and low birth weight.
- Maternal pregnancy complications.
- Sudden infant death syndrome.
- Injuries (e.g., suffocation).
Infant Mortality Rates by State, 2017
View the Infant Mortality Rates by State Map from the National Center for Health Statistics.
¹The number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
Healthy PeopleExternal provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. One of the Healthy People 2020 objectives is to reduce the rate of all infant deaths. In 2017, 26 states met the Healthy People 2020 target of 6.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Geographically, infant mortality rates in 2017 were highest among states in the south. Rates were also high in some states in the Midwest.
Infant Mortality Rates by Race and Ethnicity, 2016
*Source: p. 80 of the User Guide to the 2016 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Public Use File Cdc-pdf[PDF – 1.25MB]
In 2016, infant mortality rates by race and ethnicity were as follows:
- Non-Hispanic black: 11.4
- American Indian/Alaska Native: 9.4
- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 7.4
- Hispanic: 5.0
- Non-Hispanic white: 4.9
- Asian: 3.6
And here's a paper on vaccine coverage in the US.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824643/
Results
Vaccination coverage was significantly lower among non-Hispanic blacks, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic Asians compared with non-Hispanic whites, with only a few exceptions. Age, sex, education, health insurance, usual place of care, number of physician visits in the past 12 months, and health insurance were independently associated with receipt of most of the vaccines examined. Racial/ethnic differences narrowed, but gaps remained after taking these factors into account.
Conclusions
Racial and ethnic differences in vaccination levels narrow when adjusting for socioeconomic factors analyzed in this survey, but are not eliminated, suggesting that other factors that associated with vaccination disparities were not measured by the NHIS and could also contribute to the differences in coverage. Additional efforts including systems changes to ensure routine assessment and recommendations for needed vaccination among adults for all racial/ethnic groups are essential for improving vaccine coverage.
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Look at that!
What actually seems to correlate with infant mortality? It damn well isn't vaccination. In fact, mortality rate is higher in communities that likely have a lower vaccination rates.
So if your poor and are black, indiginous or Hawaiin/Islander and have lower vaccination rate, your babies will die in infancy at a higher rate than the rest of US citizens.
