The report estimates that there were 287,000 maternal deaths globally in 2020. That’s the equivalent of a woman dying every two minutes — or nearly 800 deaths a day.
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‘Most mothers don’t have to deal with this’: COVID-19 makes medical travel for pregnant women even harder
Alaska women who live in rural and remote communities usually travel to city centers to give birth. It hasn’t always been this way. And COVID-19 has made a hard trip even more daunting.
Focus on infants during childbirth leaves U.S. moms in danger
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.