{"id":47346,"date":"2023-11-16T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47346"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:41:55","slug":"infant-mortality-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47346","title":{"rendered":"Infant Mortality Rate Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-47347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Infant_Mortality_Rate_Increase-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Infant Mortality Rate Increase\" width=\"887\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Infant_Mortality_Rate_Increase-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Infant_Mortality_Rate_Increase-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Infant_Mortality_Rate_Increase.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the NCHS analysis focused on maternal and not infant risk factors: The outcome was infant death, the input or \u201cintervention\u201d was the mother\u2019s vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for pregnant women in April 2021, so vaccination could have affected the survivability of their fetuses and newborns within the study period.<\/p>\n<p>However, the NCHS found that Blacks were more than 3 times more likely than whites to refuse vaccination, and also experienced a much smaller increase in infant mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Americans were 56% more likely than whites to refuse vaccination and their mortality rates improved.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vigilantnews.com\/post\/cdc-reports-largest-infant-mortality-rate-increase-in-20-years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the NCHS analysis focused on maternal and not infant risk factors: The outcome was infant death, the input or \u201cintervention\u201d was the mother\u2019s vaccination status. The COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for pregnant women in April 2021, so vaccination could have affected the survivability of their fetuses and newborns within the study period. However, the NCHS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infant Mortality Rate Increase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47348,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346\/revisions\/47348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}