until it s too late. and then, there is structural racism. we know that chronic stress plays a role not just in setting up black women for all the things that raise rates of maternal mortality, like high blood pressure or asthma, but also are related to their care in the health care system. there s story after story about women who are well educated, high income, each a woman who worked at the cdc, a black woman, was unable to advocate and get herself the proper care and die. so it s this combination of factors that put the u.s. far behind our peer countries among industrialized nations. i think i heard an interview with her mom on npr this morning. a shocking story. but i can t help but notice it went up again in 2021. what role did covid and the pandemic play in this, if any? covid was a huge driver of that rise in 2021, and in fact,
they re terrified from this report. what reassurance can you provide for them, what recommendations look, i know they write books about what to do when you re pregnant. but the quick advice you can give, what would you tell them to do to have the healthiest pregnancy as they can? first and biggest thing, see that obstetrician in the early parts of your second trimester, if not before. second, get your covid vaccine. and if you re eligible, get boosted. try to avoid catching covid during pregnancy. and then the third thing is to make sure that you get access to the insurance that you are eligible for as a pregnant woman. you addressed mental health for new mothers. what is access like for those experiencing post natal depression? so it s just like with all aspects of mental health in this country. there is an absolute derth of therapists and psychiatrists who can treat women suffering from
we have preliminary data showing that rates dropped in 2022 as covid, as many of us got vaccinated and the new variants became less serious. let me be clear, if you are unvaccinated, pregnant, and catch covid, your rate of intensive care admission, being put on a ventilator or god forbid, dying, is four to ten times that of someone who is pregnant and does not catch covid. so that is huge. but secondly, being pregnant and catching covid puts you at a large risk, and most of that increase in maternal mortality in 2021, was due to covid related deaths. so what does society, what does joe biden, what do the governors need to do to reverse this trendsome the first and biggest thing is to expand medicaid. we have seen study after study showing that states with medicaid expansion have lower rates of pre-delivery, as well as post delivery mortality.
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misinformation is very large. the misinformation the cost of that misinformation, most people now dying of covid have been vaccinated. these are gnus more lies. they don t stop. it s outrageous for him to say that, look into the camera, speaking to the american people when he and fauci and others in the administration have been lying to all of us for years now, whether it was about masks or about the vaccines, saying if you get the vaccine, you can t catch covid or spread it. it sickens me to see how blatantly lying they are to the american people. everyone should know that and see it with clear eyes. tulsi, great to see you tonight. thank you so much. fun with kamala, apparently, that s next.