Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's Glaring Error

 For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die.

Diversifying medical schools by opening up the profession to Black physicians can save lives, she notes.

Black infants, for example, are more likely to survive under the care of a Black doctor.

The study does not claim to find a doubling in survival rates for black newborns who have a black attending doctor.

Instead, in its most fully specified model, it reports that 99.6839% of black babies born with a black attending physician survived compared with 99.5549% of black babies born with white attending physicians, a difference of 0.129%. The survival rate of 99.6839% is not double 99.5549%.

The exact causes of that gap are not know though it is known that black women are significantly less likely to get prenatal care.

All that to say, the racial gap in infant mortality which Jackson was talking about does exist but the specific claim that black babies are twice as likely to survive with black doctors is false.

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