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Over three years, nearly 400 pregnant or new mothers died in Texas. Its system for helping the uninsured thwarts women at every turn, frustrates doctors and midwives, and incentivizes substandard care.
Last Friday, a study provided some eye-opening numbers about the pandemic, and we're not talking about people who died as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus. According to a study
The U.S. maternal mortality rate has more than tripled in 35 years. It's not clear how much COVID-19 played a direct role in the increase in 2020.
Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic's first year, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report released Wednesday. Overall in 2020, there were...
In 2020, there were almost 24 deaths per 100,000 births, or 861 deaths total — numbers that reflect mothers dying during pregnancy, childbirth or year after.