Posted on 08/29/2021 5:14:19 AM PDT by FlyingFish
Abstract
Objectives: While COVID-19 has a relatively small direct impact on infant mortality, the pandemic is expected to indirectly increase mortality of this vulnerable group in low-income and middle-income countries through its effects on the economy and health system performance.
Design: We construct a sample of 5.2 million births by pooling retrospective birth histories reported by women in Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 83 low-income and middle-income countries between 1985 and 2018. We employ regression models with country-specific fixed-effects and flexible time trends to estimate the impact of gross domestic product per capita on infant mortality rate. We then use growth projections by the International Monetary Fund to predict the effect of the economic downturn in 2020 on infant mortality.
Results: We estimate 267 208 (95% CI 112 000 to 422 415) excess infant deaths in 128 countries, corresponding to a 6.8% (95% CI 2.8% to 10.7%) increase in the total number of infant deaths expected in 2020.
Conclusions: The findings underscore the vulnerability of infants to the negative income shocks such as those imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bill Gates is very happy with this.
Dead babies, OD and liver failure way up, suicide way up, hundreds of thousands of businesses destroyed, loss of freedom, destruction of social behavior, all for a greater than 99% recovery virus.
Democrats would just abort them anyways.
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