The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has released findings that shows the infant mortality rate in America has jumped 3 percent from 2021 to 2022, the biggest spike in 20 years. The rate jumped from 5.42 deaths per live births in 2021 to 5.6 deaths per 1000 live births in 2022. This is considered a “significant” increase in statistics, one worth noting, and certainly one to track once the 2023 statistics are released in 2024.
The CDC findings also show that infant deaths are on the rise, increasing by 3 percent from 2021 to 2022, going from 19.578 deaths to 20,538 deaths. While American live births have increased in that same time-period, going from 3,664,292 in 2021 to 3,667,758 in 2022, the increase in births doesn’t account for the far-more dramatic increase in deaths.
From washingtontimes.com:
According to CDC records, the infant mortality rate has increased annually on only five occasions — 2002, 2005, 2015, 2021 and 2022 — since the federal agency first linked infant births and deaths in a single file in 1995.
The 2022 rate remains 18.5% lower than the agency’s “recent high” of 6.86 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2005.
From 2021 to 2022, CDC researchers found the neonatal death rate for babies who died before 28 days increased by 3% from 3.49 to 3.58 deaths per 1,000 live births. The post-neonatal death rate for those who died after 28 days increased by 4% from 1.95 to 2.02 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The report also noted significant increases in infant mortality rates for American indigenous women, White women, women aged 25 to 29, male infants and preterm babies.
Among the leading causes of infant death, the CDC noted that a jump in maternal complications and bacterial sepsis drove the increased infant death rate and tally last year.
In the Washington Times article, “experts” who contacted the Washington Times are blaming abortion restrictions for causing the rise in deaths, an oxymoron that defies all logic and common sense, and also smacks of the most debased of agitprop, using the prevention of the intentional murder of unborn children as the cause for the rise in infant mortality, using the deaths of the born to justify the murders of the unborn. May God have mercy on these “experts'” souls and may they never been given “expert” authority when it comes to neonatal care.
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