Posted on Mar 16, 2022
The pandemic is making America's dismal pregnancy-related death rate even worse
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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. The report also found a growing disparity in mortality along racial lines. Black people are dying at three times the rate of white people.
In addition, a new report from Vox out this week found that maternity wards are shuttering around the country, especially in rural areas and communities consisting primarily of people of color.
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?
In addition, a new report from Vox out this week found that maternity wards are shuttering around the country, especially in rural areas and communities consisting primarily of people of color.
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?
The pandemic is making America's dismal pregnancy-related death rate even worse
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*sigh* While rich in urban areas don't have to worry about pregnancies, the article mentions cites a Vox story about the poor and rural areas that still face risk of giving birth due to lack of quality healthcare services.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
In this day and age, per March of Dimes (a pretty reliable organization) we have health care deserts (many rural hospitals & medical practices, in predominantly "red" states have closed) where about 2.2 Million women do not have ready or reliable access to pre-natal, labor & delivery and post-natal care.
https://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/reportcard.aspx
https://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/reportcard.aspx
The U.S. premature birth rate declined for the seventh year in a row, but the country on the whole still gets a C rating.
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The US has long had the highest maternal mortality rate in all developed nations - and it's worse for women of color. Why? I haven't really looked into it but perhaps the fact that no one takes women seriously whether during pregnancy or post partum. Especially post partum women tend to get ignored.
I almost died from pregnancy. I had preeclampsia and had my daughter a month early. My best friend had preeclampsia with her third child far worse than I and it's basically a miracle she didn't die and was a lot closer to death than I was - and had her kid 2 months early. Both are fine today - but pregnancy is dangerous. Period. More people need to realize that - especially, well, white males who love to try to legislate it.
I almost died from pregnancy. I had preeclampsia and had my daughter a month early. My best friend had preeclampsia with her third child far worse than I and it's basically a miracle she didn't die and was a lot closer to death than I was - and had her kid 2 months early. Both are fine today - but pregnancy is dangerous. Period. More people need to realize that - especially, well, white males who love to try to legislate it.
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Hurts like hell to use the thumbs up on this post, however, having paid attention to this particular demographic x24 months, it's absolutely heartbreaking
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