Anti-Vaccine Advocates Falsely Link Spike in US Maternal Mortality Rate to Covid-19 Shots

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Anti-Vaccine Advocates Falsely Link Spike in US Maternal Mortality Rate to Covid-19 Shots
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Anti-vaccine advocates are falsely claiming that the recent increase in the US maternal mortality rate is due to Covid-19 shots. However, experts state that rising maternal deaths are caused by other factors such as healthcare access gaps, chronic conditions, and the coronavirus itself. Public health authorities worldwide recommend the vaccines for pregnant individuals to prevent severe illness and death.

Anti-vaccine advocates are linking a recent spike in the US maternal mortality rate to Covid-19 shots. This is false; public health authorities around the world recommend the jabs for preventing severe illness and death in those who are pregnant, and experts say rising maternal deaths are due to factors such as health care access gaps, chronic conditions and the coronavirus itself."And in that manuscript, there's no mention of Covid, and there's no mention of the vaccines.

They're simply reporting this bad news that pregnant American mothers are now dying at alarming rates."in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic -- with Black people more than twice as likely to die than white people, according to the 2023 report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The rate was the highest among high-income nations, and the number of deaths in 2021 was the most since the mid-1960

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