The US calls a lot of things “Infant Death” than most other countries call miscarriage. The relatively high rates of infant mortality in the United States is entirely due to this difference in terminology. All of the hand-wringing over this statistic is useless, because it is really a difference in terminology, and nothing more.
But it fits the template, so nobody looks any further.
Also, US hospitals are far more aggressive in attempting to save the lives in premature infants.
Babies born under 2 pounds are no longer a rarity, and those who do not make it are chalked into the “infant mortality” column, whereas the same child in another country would have been “stillborn.”
Is there a source for your comment? I would like to throw it at a few friends of mine.
Thanks for pointing it out!