"Nearly 10 babies died for every 1,000 live births. For Black babies, it was even higher at 15.2. The numbers — the highest in more than a decade — led the state of Mississippi under Edney's leadership to declare a public health emergency on Aug. 21."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5558448/mississippi-medicaid-infant-mortality-crisis

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"Nearly 10 babies died for every 1,000 live births. For Black babies, it was even higher at 15.2. The numbers — the highest in more than a decade — led the state of Mississippi under Edney's leadership to declare a public health emergency on Aug. 21."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5558448/mississippi-medicaid-infant-mortality-crisis

#PublicHealth #healthcare #medicaid #ACA #insurance #InfantMortality #ChildrensHealth #hospitals #RuralHealth #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #prenatal #mississippi

"'... our concern is that adult Mississippians are not maintaining the pertussis immunity, which puts our babies at risk.'”
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-baby-dies-of-whooping-cough-the-states-first-pertussis-death-in-13-years/ v @msfreepress
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