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Should your ZIP code impact your infant’s health?

The scene plays out like it’s one from the pages of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” In some communities across America, infants are healthy. There are low rates of upper respiratory infections and ear infections and low incidences of asthma. But in far too many other communities—sadly, mostly Black and Brown ones—there is a completely opposite story unfolding.

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