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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Julia Musto

US kids live in the richest country in the world. They’re dying at greater rates than other high-income countries

Efforts to prevent child deaths in America have fallen far behind other wealthy countries, a decades-long study revealed Friday.

U.S. child deaths, from any cause, fell at an 8 percent lower rate than deaths in 13 other rich countries, over the last 50 years.

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