The share of infants born before the third trimester who receive active treatment has increased from 45.7% in 2014 to 58.8% in 2020, but Black and Hispanic infants are still less likely to receive such care.
Officials are urging parents to immunize their kids against polio—a serious disease that can cause paralysis or death and which mainly strikes young children—after the virus that causes it was found in several countries that had all but eliminated it.
More than 2 billion people could starve to death just years after even a regional nuclear conflict, modeling suggests, and more than 5 billion could die after a war between the United States and Russia.