U.S. maternal mortality rate dips, but will the trend continue?
After years on the rise, the U.S. maternal mortality rate decreased in 2022, new government data show. But maternal health experts warn there’s no reason to celebrate: The dip is a course correction following the Covid-19 pandemic, and mothers in the United States continue to die at dramatically higher rates than mothers in other high-income countries.
The racial disparities continued as well, with Black mothers in the U.S. dying at more than two and a half times the rate of white mothers, according to the data released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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