US pregnancy-related death rate went up again in 2020
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.
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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.
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.
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.
The U.S. maternal mortality rate has more than tripled in 35 years, according to a government report released Wednesday.
The US maternal mortality rate — already the worst in the industrialized world — rose in 2020 to its highest level in half a century, with black women three times more likely to die than white women, data showed yesterday. A US National Center for Health Statistics report showed that the rate was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, far higher than comparable countries, such as Canada, where it was 7.5 per 100,000, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development statistics for the same year. Overall, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes, which the...