In 2020 in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women.
As we rapidly approach the three-year mark of the Covid pandemic, healthcare finds itself, in many ways, far the worse for wear, not having benefited financially in any way from the pandemic.
This story is authored by By Chaseedaw Giles and appeared on KHN News. It appeared originally in The Boston Globe and is republished with permission.
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