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The aerial sentiment about environmental degradation below also artfully invokes individual human mortality, when just a slight pause precedes the final word.

For example, Texas skipped reviewing the first two years of maternal mortality data after implementing its near-total abortion ban.

The results are indisputable: The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, and it is worse in states with entrenched Republican majorities.

But even short-term exposure to PM 2.5 can lead to adverse health outcomes such as higher rates of infant mortality, increased cardiovascular issues and childhood asthma.

In 2015, Mina and colleagues published a paper that looked at mortality data in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Denmark before and after measles vaccines were introduced.