Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages and infections are leading causes of maternal deaths. Among those infections is COVID-19. The coronavirus and its complications proved dangerous to pregnant ...

Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages and infections are leading causes of maternal deaths. Among those infections is COVID-19. The coronavirus and its complications proved dangerous to ...

Racial Gap Widened in Deaths Among US Moms Around the Time of Childbirth NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of ...

Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages and infections are leading causes of maternal deaths. Among those infections is COVID-19. The coronavirus and its complications proved dangerous to pregnant ...

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In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for Black women was about 2.6 times higher than white women. The data suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic, at its peak, impacted all pregnant women.

That’s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 in 2021, when it was the highest in more than 50 years. Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages and infections are leading causes of maternal deaths.