The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. in 2022 – while still high – went back to where it was before deaths surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest CDC report.
After an alarming spike in 2021, maternal mortality numbers the next year went back down, according to a report released Thursday. CDC Director Mandy Cohen says the rates are still too high.After an alarming spike in 2021, maternal mortality numbers the next year went back down, according to a report released Thursday. CDC Director Mandy Cohen says the rates are still too high.The data shows that 817 women died of maternal causes in the U.S. in 2022, compared to 1,205 in 2021.
The maternal mortality rate in 2022 was 22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births. That's a significant decrease from the 2021 rate of 32.9, but it'sin the U.S. maternal mortality rate as well – the rate for Black women was 49.5 deaths per 100,00 births in 2022, compared to a rate of 19 deaths for white women. Research shows the vast majority of these deathsis an OB-GYN in New Orleans who was not involved in the CDC report.
She's encouraged that the 2022 numbers are slightly lower than 2020 – 817 in 2022 versus 861 in 2020."It could mean that we're moving in the right direction – I think we need more years of data to know," she says.on the agency's methodology, suggesting that a pregnancy checkbox on death certificates was causing the numbers to be much higher than they are in reality. CDC strongly rejected the study's findings.
"I think CDC is doing great work in collecting the data and sharing that back," CDC Director Mandy Cohen told NPR last month."We disagree with how that study was looking at it, and think it's unacceptable for moms to be dying at that rate here in the United States."America.
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