Maternal deaths in the U.S. keep climbing
The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the higher rate in 2020 and 2021
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The maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times the rate for white women in the United States in 2021, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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