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).

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    Strange how all sorts of health issues started getting worse after the start of 2020, i wonder what it could be. :soviet-hmm:

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's just the cost of freedom and democracy

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Right-wing U.S. states have higher maternal mortality than left-wing Indian states. Kerala's better than Texas, Georgia, and a few others, last I checked.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Are you Malu?

        Kerala is based as fuck but they're still extremely poor. It makes you wonder what could happen if the entire country, or even continent somehow unified and went red.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          No - my only personal connection to that sentence is that I have friends who have given birth in Georgia. (Everyone survived,) I think I first came across the comparison in an Arundhati Roy essay, and verified it later during a conversation with one of those recent Georgia mothers.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's actually really good for China, considering that China has more people living in rural areas than the US has people.

      Really bad for the US though...

  • 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.

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

    Yeah Roe didn't get nuked until 2022, not sure what those :reddit-logo:ers are smoking

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      Terminal headline -> comments disease