US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, CDC data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse | CNN
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As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation's maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.

This was posted on /r/news and everybody thinks this is about the anti-abortion laws. If you read the article, it's actually because of covid (this is not me saying anti-abortion laws won't have an effect, that's just not what this current issue is about).

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Pregnant women getting covid led to decreased lung capacities in newborns didn't it? I wanna say that was one of the posited reasons they saw a spike in hospitalizations for RSV in children under 6 months...

    • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      looks like it (or well, seems likely, as there has only been this study on the subject i believe)

      there WAS also a RSV pandemic in general last year though, so I'm not sure how related the lung capacity thing is to that

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        there WAS also a RSV pandemic in general last year though, so I’m not sure how related the lung capacity thing is to that

        That's actually the reason I remembered this, because the "Immunity Debt" explanation was kind of blown out of the water by the uptick in RSV from children who weren't around for the "dreaded" era of masking.