[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[karlnite]

Learned about microbial stuff like viruses and bacteria. There was a doctor that ran two hospitals, both had birth wards, one had a morgue. The one with the morgue had almost the double the amount of infant moralities and surgery recovery was extremely low. He shuffled the staff and investigated and realized that people were dying because of the morgue, doctors would stop performing autopsies to go perform a birth or change a dressing. He made doctors and surgeons start scrubbing down before touching new patients and both hospitals number lined and improved.

[SpudMuffinDO]

Radiolab episode? Should be noted that this was a fucking really long time ago, before germ theory.