OH BABY

 Here is something I stumbled across the other day.  It bothers me.

These are statistics published by UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) which was originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.  The statistics have to do with infant mortality.  The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and most other nations consider infant death any that occurs between the start of pregnancy through the child's first birthday.  The World Health Organization (WHO) only considers deaths occurring the first six weeks after birth (when most deaths occur).  Some countries don't consider deaths occurring during pregnancy.   So much for all the disclaimers.  Stats are for 2020.

Certainly, you should expect one of the richest countries in the world to have the best health care or near to that.  There are 195 countries considered here and the USA comes in at number 50.  Greater than 5.4 children out of every 1000 births dies before their first birthday.  

We were better than Iran, North Korea, Mongolia, Palestine, Syria, Rwanda, and the Congo.  We beat the heck out of Afghanistan and Haiti.  Pakistan and Somalia are way behind us.  

We should be ashamed.  Shouldn't the whole world be behind us?  50th!  What are we doing wrong?  

Somebody, please do something about this.