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U.S. Is 15th Best Place For A Child To Get Sick, Behind Cuba And Uzbekistan | The international nonprofit Save the Children put out a new report surveying the health and wellbeing of children worldwide. The report finds that Switzerland is the best place in the world for a child to get sick thanks to its broad array of social supports, and Chad and Somalia are the worst. Meanwhile, the United States comes in as the 15th best, trailing relatively poor countries like Cuba and Uzbekistan.

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