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The Pandemic Is Making America's Maternal Mortality Rate Worse

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:32:09
Publish Date: 2022-03-09 20:58:21
Description: A new report from the CDC reveals that pregnancy-related death rates are going up. In 2020, pregnancy-related mortality rose by nearly 20 percent compared to the previous year.

This is all taking place during a global pandemic that has strained hospital systems and made even routine procedures a difficult and sometimes dangerous task. But pregnancy-related deaths have been going up long before COVID-19, having almost doubled in the past 30 years.

How has the pandemic impacted maternal mortality and what is being done to reverse this long-standing trend?

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