New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women fell significantly in 2022. It comes after a year when the maternal death rate was the highest in nearly six decades. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.
In 2021, there were about 33 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. The last time the government recorded a rate that high was 1964.
“Initially there was a lot of mistrust of the vaccine in Black communities,” said Samantha Griffin, who owns a doula service that mainly serves families of color in the Washington, D.C., area. More than a year into the pandemic, a lot of doctors and nurses were feeling burned out and they were getting less in-person time with patients.Providers at the time “were needing to make snap decisions and maybe not listening to their patients as much,” Griffin said. “Women were saying that they thought something was wrong and they weren’t being heard.”Shamony Gibson, a healthy 30-year-old, was set to have their second child.
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