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As the COVID-19 pandemic has waned with vaccinations and improved treatments, healthcare experts have begun to measure its dramatic effects on expectant and new mothers in Virginia. Virginia’s maternal mortality rate leaped by 130% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis by the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO. In 2021, women in

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The wide gap between maternal death rates for Black, white mothers persists

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's Division of Death Prevention has received a CDC grant to help address this growing issue.