There’s good and bad news when it comes to infant mortality in the United States.

Infant mortality, or the death of a baby before his or her 1st birthday, has declined in recent years across the nation and around the world.
Yet disparities persist across states, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Center for Health Statistics on Thursday.
The new report showed that, from 2013 through 2015, the infant mortality rate in the US ranged from 9.08 deaths per 1,000 infants born alive in Mississippi — which had the highest rate — to 4.28 deaths per 1,000 live births in Massachusetts, which had the lowest.
A report released last year showed that the overall infant mortality rate in the US dropped 15% from 2005 to 2014.
The new report includes data for 2015, showing that […]

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