Fierce Healthcare February 24, 2022
The maternal mortality rate among Black women was nearly three times that of non-Hispanic White women in 2020, according to new government data.
Maternal mortality increased within the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic, particularly for non-Hispanic Black women and women aged 25 years and older, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
The country saw a total of 861 maternal deaths reported through 2020, up 14% from 754 in 2019 and 31% from 658 in 2018. The total number of live births also steadily declined each year from 3.79 million in 2018 to 3.61 million in 2020.
Those numbers translated to maternal mortality rates of 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live...
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