Shortly after they’re born, infants are assigned an Apgar score, a measure of how well they’re adapting to life outside the womb.
One of them is skin color, an indication of how much oxygen the baby is getting.
A newborn gets two points only if he or she is pink all over.
Pale or blue fingers and toes earn one point; a baby who is white, gray or blueish all over gets none.
But an accumulating body of research has found that Black infants and other babies of color don’t score as well on the Apgar as white infants.
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