The report did not include reasons for the trend, which has disproportionately affected Black people.
Labor and delivery nurse, Dana Martinez, 52, and venue nurse, Marlin Garcia, 22, return back to the maternity ward for mothers who test positive for COVID-19 after wheeling a new mother out to the parking lot to be released from the Women's Center of the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, July 8, 2020.Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S.
The report from the National Center for Health Statistics does not include reasons for the trend and researchers said they have not fully examined how COVID-19, which increases risks for severe illness in pregnancy, might have contributed. He called the high rates “terrible news’’ and noted that the U.S. has continually fared worse in maternal mortality than many other developed countries.Pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 births climbed from 44 in 2019 to 55 in 2020 among Black people and from 13 to 18 among Hispanics. The 2020 rate among whites, 19 per 100,000 births, was essentially unchanged.
“This is incredibly sad news and especially scary for Black women,’’ said Dr. Laura Riley, OB-GYN chief at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
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