Mississippi Mothers Died Preventable Deaths During COVID

Thursday, January 09, 2025

Mississippi women died of pregnancy complications at nearly twice the national rate during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.

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Maternal mortality review committees in states that have recently imposed strict bans on abortion have done little to determine whether the laws are contributing to maternal deaths, a ProPublica investigation shows. Read the full story: https://propub.li/4iHoAlX

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Mississippi women died of pregnancy complications at nearly twice the national rate during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows. The vast majority of those deaths were preventable, according to the latest Mississippi Maternal Mortality Report.

Another stellar job by the GQP.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-09 03:59 AM | Reply

Forget it, Jake. Its Mississippi.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-09 05:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

People around the world died from preventable complications related to all kinds of things during the COVID-19 pandemic. That Mississippi is a poor state with lower quality healthcare across the board is not really news.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-09 05:54 AM | Reply

That the situation could stand with serious improvement seems less obvious to the entrenched wielders of power. And they're dead keen on doing it their way, by gawd.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-09 06:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sentinel is giving this the same look as he does child murder in schools...

'Yeah, nothing can be done. Tots and praaaerz.'

#5 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-01-09 11:47 AM | Reply

Repugs enjoy snuffing out pregnant women almost as much as they enjoy shooting up classrooms full of 1st graders.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-09 11:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Really though when haven't people died needlessly from preventable causes in Mississippi?

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-09 01:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"'Yeah, nothing can be done."

What exactly do you expect to be done in this case? Do you want every state to have the same statistics? Are you advocating for more money to be sent to Mississippi to improve health care?

#8 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-09 02:02 PM | Reply

"What exactly do you expect to be done in this case? Do you want every state to have the same statistics? Are you advocating for more money to be sent to Mississippi to improve health care?"

Yes, obviously. Not just Mississippi of course, ALL of the states that didn't expand Medicaid under the ACA need to do it immediately.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-01-09 03:29 PM | Reply

Those Ukraine donations would $ure come in handy for Americans right about now.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-09 04:48 PM | Reply

#3 Mississippi is right behind Germany in terms of GDPPC, and Germany is the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world.

I can't speak to Mississippi or anywhere else in the US, but here in Germany, doctors (at least the USGOV doctors) quit seeing patients unless it was an emergency. So from about March 2020 through Jan 2022, there were no checkups or cancer screenings or anything like that. It would make sense that mortality rates would increase as a result of these services being unavailable.

#11 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-01-10 01:10 AM | Reply