Claim: "Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America  greater today, in 2019, than in the year 1850..."
Fact-check: Is racial gap in infant mortality higher today than in 1850, as Beto O'Rourke says?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Warren Fiske
Date published: 2019-04-23T00:00:00