US has the worst rate of child mortality among 20 rich nations
The United States has a higher child mortality rate than 19 other wealthy democracies.
A child age 15 to 19 in the U.S. is 82 times more likely to die from gun violence than such a child in the other countries.
America's higher death rate for kids has persisted despite the nation spending more on health care for children than other rich countries.
The United States has the worst child mortality rate among a group of 20 wealthy democracies, an analysis released Monday found.
And despite overall improvement in the child mortality rate in the U.S. and those 19 other countries, the U.S. has persistently outpaced those nations in that grim metric for decades, the Health Affairs report said.
"the risk of death in the US was 76 percent greater for infants and 57 percent greater for children age 1-19," the report said
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/us-has-worst-rate-of-child-mortality-among-20-rich-nations.html
Omeba CARE didn't help much did it?
Stocks in opium production and OLD opium wars are up across the board tho...
PS:
now for the fakenewsers out there:
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
Compare this graph to the graph of disease reduction in the previous link ( which won't c and p) and note the dates of disease reduction and note the date of the introduction of vaccines.