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Further analysis through March 2021 further confirmed that Black Americans had a higher infection rate than their White counterparts. [18] Due to higher death rates from COVID-19 and deaths at younger ages, Black Americans suffered a greater decline in life expectancy in 2020 than their White counterparts. Specifically, projected life ...
Black maternal mortality in the United States refers to the disproportionately high rate of maternal death among those who identify as Black or African American women. [1] Maternal death is often linked to both direct obstetric complications (such as hemorrhage or eclampsia) and indirect obstetric deaths that exacerbate pre-existing health ...
List of U.S. states and territories by birth and death rates in 2021 2021 rank State Birth rate (per 1,000 people) [1] Death rate (per 1,000 people) [1] Rate of natural increase (per 1,000 people) 1 Guam: 15.5 7.6 7.9 2 American Samoa - - - 3 Utah: 14.0 6.8 7.2 4 Northern Marianas: 11.0 5.1 5.9 5 Alaska: 12.8 8.5 4.3 6 District of Columbia: 12. ...
In Ohio, the Black infant mortality rate in 2021 was 164% higher for Blacks than whites, even when controlling for factors such as parental income and education, according to the Ohio Infant ...
By April 25, the U.S. had more than 905,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 52,000 deaths, giving it a mortality rate around 5.7 percent. (In comparison, Spain's mortality rate was 10.2 percent and Italy's was 13.5 percent.) [87] [88] In April 2020, more than 10,000 American deaths had occurred in nursing homes.
Black mothers were more than 2.5 times as likely to die during pregnancy, while giving birth or shortly after pregnancy than white women in both Ohio and the United States, state and national ...
The 2022 fetal mortality rate among Black mothers remained higher than the national rate in 1990.
Similarly, American Public Media reported on the COVID-19 mortality rate by race/ethnicity through July 21, 2020, including Washington, DC, and 45 states. [5] These data, while showing an alarming death rate for all races, demonstrate how minorities in the US are impacted harder by the pandemic.