Pregnancy-Related U.S. Death Rates Have Jumped in Recent Years
What: Maternal death rates have spiked across the U.S., with wide state-by-state variation. Experts say better performance is possible and lives could have been saved.
Key Line: “If all states could have performed as well as California, we could have avoided 2,679 pregnancy-related deaths” in that four-year period.
Source: TIME
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