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Local scientists and their colleagues from the CDC detail 2 cases of locally acquired dengue in November 2022 in Maricopa County.

The pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from rates in 2019 and hitting racial minority women hard.

NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests. More than 1,200 U.S.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/us-pregnancy-deaths-dropped-in-2022-after-covid-spike/"></div>NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

The rate at which women – particularly Black and Hispanic women - die while pregnant, during or soon after childbirth in the U.S. was a concern even before the pandemic.

After spiking during COVID, pregnancy deaths in the U.S. have returned to pre-pandemic levels. But that's still much higher than in decades past.

THURSDAY, March 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- After U.S. pregnancy deaths soared in 2021, they are on track to drop to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, a new government report shows.

The decrease comes after a year when the maternal death rate was the highest in nearly six decades: more than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.

The maternal death rate is on track to reach a pre-pandemic level, but before COVID-19 it was the highest it had been in decades.

NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests.