Maternal mortality rate surged by 40% in the US. Here's what we know. | USA TODAY

A new federal analysis shows pregnant women are dying at even higher rates across the U.S. Here's why.

Maternal death rates surged by nearly 40% during the second year of the pandemic, widening disparities as Black women again faced alarmingly high, disproportionate rates, a new federal analysis shows.

In 2021, there were about 33 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births – a 38% increase from the year before, according to the report released Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Experts say COVID-19 likely contributed to the increases, but that the sobering rates continue to reveal deep flaws in health systems, such as structural racism, implicit bias and communities losing access to care.

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[samsonsoturian]

This is a classic case of an incompetent reporter plays politics with mundane news. No one is even bothering to try and connect alleged issues to the stats but it is presented as fact anyway.

[nevcutchall]

Exactly WHAT is causing post-partum hemorrhaging? My nurse caught it after my last delivery, (my uterus wouldn't return to it's normal position) & my doctor just administered pitocin, reopened my stitches & pulled it back down into place. I hesitated, at first, but she said if I didn't let her, I would hemorrhage & bleed to death. This was a normal, healthy, unmedicated vaginal birth in a university hospital. Nine months later I had a complete miscarriage, most likely due to that 'complication'. Years later, pelvic & female issues persist, but I am still here, aching for the children (& fathers) that have lost loved ones to this maternal crisis. Figure it out, DO something. These numbers for our country are absurd. America's medical system has caused her to become the worst country in the world.

[moaski]

It's all these men having babies!

[samsonsoturian]

That mortality rate is fairly low ordinarily. It doesn't take much to produce the trend.