Link found between killings of unarmed black people by police and local babies born prematurely
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 09:50
in Health & Medicine
Joscha Legewie, a sociologist at Harvard University has found a link between the killing of unarmed black people and an increase in local black babies being born prematurely. In his paper published in the journal Science Advances, he describes his study of birth records for black Americans living in the vicinity of killings by the police and what he found.