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by powerslacker 1353 days ago
The timing of the publication of this data is telling. The data is gathered from a total of 1018 total cases from 2017-2019. The CDC has also published totals of the national rates of maternal mortality: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020...

In 2020, there were 861 deaths total, at a rate of 23.8 per 100k births. If my math is correct that's roughly a .024% chance across all age groups of maternal mortality including deaths caused by suicide/mental health issues.

The number of pregnancy related deaths is incredibly low.
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floxy 1353 days ago
>In 2020, there were 861 deaths total, at a rate of 23.8 per 100k births.

Interesting. According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...

    Death rate by age and sex
             Male   Female
    15-24    99.7     38.4
    25-34   177       78.9
    35-44   257      141.6
...that would look like a death rate of 258.9 per 100k for women aged 15-44. Using the US population as 331,893,000 that works out to be about 859,272 deaths of women in that 15-44 age group. Or about 0.1% of deaths related to maternity.
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