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by foobarian
344 days ago
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> We live in extremely safe times compared to This sentence in a HN article from a day ago caught my eye [1][2]. > Second, between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s, the US maternal death rate fell by 94 percent, according to Sarygulov and Arslanagic-Wakefield. Early antibiotics in the 1930s, followed by the mass production of penicillin in the 1940s, “drove down incidences of sepsis, [which were] responsible for 40 percent of maternal deaths at the time, and made caesarean sections safer,” they write. 94 percent! [1] https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-caused-the-baby-boom-wh... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572527 |
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