In Philadelphia, the number of black children under age 5 diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has shot up 220% since the mid-1980s — and no one knows why.
It's one thing to identify the complex social cause of this crisis. It's far harder to combat racism and stop more babies from dying.
If racism is reduced to a biological bug, who needs a March on Washington to promote racial justice when you have the right pill for the job?
A FiveThirtyEight reporter on how she tackled an ambitious series on a huge, overlooked health crisis.
