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Exactly. I liked quite a lot of what he said, but that "appalling" was appalling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor...

Iceland IMR (the lowest) is 2.9, and the US is 6.3. Wow! That means twice as many kids in the US die as Iceland! That's appalling! But we're in the noise floor here. 0.03% vs 0.06% is noise floor, It's certainly not appalling.



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