Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies (IMAGE)

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Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies

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A mother holding her newborn skin to skin

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Solen Feyissa, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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