A wide disparity in fetal mortality continued during the first two years of the pandemic: Black mothers are more than twice as likely to experience a fetal death at 20 weeks or more than white mothers.
A wide disparity in fetal mortality continued during the first two years of the pandemic: Black mothers are more than twice as likely to experience a fetal deathA report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday found that while fetal deaths slightly decreased by 5% for Black mothers between 2020 and 2021, their rates remained significantly higher than whiteFor Black mothers, the rate was 9.
Fetal mortality rates count deaths in gestation or stillbirths and do not include abortions or miscarriages. The CDC mortality rates of Black babies “In spite of the 5% reduction, the actual fetal death rate is so much higher in non-Hispanic Black women. It’s persistent,” said Dr. Shari Lawson, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins Medicine.While previous reports found a possible association, this CDC analysis shows overall U.S. fetal death rates remained the same from 2019 through the first and second years of the pandemic, fluctuating between 5.68 and 5.74.
According to a November 2021 CDC analysis of 1.2 million delivery hospitalizations, U.S. women with COVID-19Pregnant people who contract COVID are at higher risk for adverse outcomes,
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