Good for Black docs, and all that- but results like this are ~always the result of dubiously honest "backwards margin reporting." For example, a 99.9% survival rate under Black doctors and 99.6% SR under white ones CAN technically be spun as a "300% difference in survival rates."
*400% difference, actually.
My assumption here was pretty much correct: "Under the care of White physicians, the White newborn mortality rate is 290 per 100,000 births. Black mortality is estimated at 894 per 100,000 births." Having a Black doc closes the gap from ~600 to ~200 per 100,000 babies.
Another way of putting this is that the survival rate is 99.71% for white babies with white doctors, 99.11% for Black babies w white doctors, and 99.37% or so for BB with BD. This is the study. sci-hub.tw/https://doi.or…
#Last - The survival rate for BB was actually 99.66% (99.37/99.71) of that for WB in the most common same-race scenario. We all want the best for all kids, but only reversing the direction of analysis and examining fractions of 1% could produce an apocalyptic header here.
