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U.S women's maternal death report released: Ep 2820 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program. I'm Gary
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  Speaker 1: mccantz and thank you for joining like to Acknowledge God
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  Speaker 1: and you are listeners one episode two thousand, eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty. We wanna talk about women's maternal death break.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a topic that hopefully you ladies have been
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to for your own individual lives. But a
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  Speaker 1: report just came out where the Center for Disease Control
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  Speaker 1: says that racial gap has widened in deaths among US
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  Speaker 1: moms around the time of Chilper. And those of you
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  Speaker 1: ladies who are listening in from abroad in your various countries,
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  Speaker 1: you should find out as well for your individual lives
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, especially if it affects you and your
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  Speaker 1: loved ones. But Mike stop Over at the Philadelphia Tribune
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  Speaker 1: wrote an article that black women in the United States
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  Speaker 1: died at a rate nearly three point five times higher
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  Speaker 1: than white women around the time of childbirth in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, as maternal mortality fell below pre pandemic levels overall,
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  Speaker 1: but racial gaps widened, according to the Federal Health Data release.
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  Speaker 1: Now keep in mind it's only twenty twenty five. The
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  Speaker 1: report continues to say the article in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, the maternal death rate for Black
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  Speaker 1: women was about two point six times higher than white women.
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  Speaker 1: The data suggests that COVID nineteen pandemic at its peak
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  Speaker 1: impacted all pregnant women, but once we went back to
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  Speaker 1: usual activities in the impact of systematic racism and unequal
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  Speaker 1: access to medical care came right back into place, said
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  Speaker 1: doctor Amanda Williams, interim medical director for the March of Dimes.
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  Speaker 1: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, released Whimesday
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  Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty three deaths was drawn from death certificates.
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  Speaker 1: The CDC count's women who died while pregnant, during childbirth
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  Speaker 1: and up to forty two days after birth. Accidental deaths
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  Speaker 1: are excluded. The report found that the maternal death rate
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  Speaker 1: for white women had dropped from nineteen deaths per one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand live verbs in twenty twenty two to fourteen
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  Speaker 1: point five one hundred thousand and twenty twenty three. The
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  Speaker 1: rate for Black women went from forty nine point five
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  Speaker 1: to a little above fifty, though the report says that
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  Speaker 1: increase was not statistically significant. The rate for Hispanic women
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  Speaker 1: dropped from about seventeen to about twelve. The rate for
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  Speaker 1: Asian Americans fell from about thirteen to about eleven. And
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  Speaker 1: in this report, I don't see where it's mentioning the
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  Speaker 1: Native American women or the Jewish American women and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: In total, six hundred and sixty nine women died in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth. The
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  Speaker 1: CDC reported that's down from eight hundred and seventeen deaths
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and two hundred and five in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, when it was the highest in more
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  Speaker 1: than fifty years. Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages, and infections
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  Speaker 1: are leading causes of maternal deaths. Among those infections is
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  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. The coronavirus and its complications proved dangerous to
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  Speaker 1: pregnant women, and in the worst days of the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: burned out doctors may have added to the risks by ignoring,
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  Speaker 1: by ignoring, by ignoring pregnant women's worries. Experts say COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen's overall impact on pregnancies declined as the pandemic subsided,
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  Speaker 1: and as hospitals and birthing centers returned to normal operations.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. That right there is very interesting. Also, the
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  Speaker 1: federal Medicaid program expanded to cover postpartum care for up
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  Speaker 1: to twelve months instead of just seven weeks. That helped
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  Speaker 1: more mom recovering made them healthier for the next time
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  Speaker 1: they tried to have a baby. William said. The number
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  Speaker 1: of maternal deaths is also tied to the number of pregnancies.
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  Speaker 1: US verbs have been declining and fewer pregnancies contributed to
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  Speaker 1: fewer pregnancy related deaths, noted your gene Declared and a
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  Speaker 1: maternal deaths researcher at Boston University. The Center for Disease
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  Speaker 1: Control officials refused an Associated Press request to talk to
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  Speaker 1: a report author. The government is still receiving in processing
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  Speaker 1: death reports from last year, but the claric said his
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  Speaker 1: analysis of available data suggests the number twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: maternal deaths may end up about the same as twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three