'The goal must be to ensure that people of color have fair access to the full array of medical treatments and resources available, said Dr. David Jones, a Harvard professor who has been a leading proponent of removing race from clinical algorithms.
But critics of the Apgar score’s reliance on skin color fear that it is resulting in extra medical treatment being heaped on babies of color who are healthy, potentially sending them to intensive care unnecessarily.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/health/apgar-score-black-infants.html
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