Comment by smallmancontrov
19 hours ago
> they simply don't count too premature (under 22 weeks or 500 grams, iirc) and therefore don't consider them in the metrics
Nope, that's not the reason.
> The U.S. infant mortality rate was still higher than for most Europeancountries when births at less than 22 weeks of gestation were excluded.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db23.pdf
Statistical hustling is common, but the most usual form is that the US excludes uninsured individuals to make itself look like it belongs in the developed country cluster.
No, the uninsured are included in both infant mortality and, even more obviously, death statistics.