Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic’s first year
, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report released Wednesday.
The report from the National Center for Health Statistics does not include reasons for the trend and researchers said they have not fully examined how COVID-19, which increases risks for severe illness in pregnancy, might have contributed. Pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 births climbed from 44 in 2019 to 55 in 2020 among Black people and from 13 to 18 among Hispanics. The 2020 rate among whites, 19 per 100,000 births, was essentially unchanged.
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