What I Read: the Effort to Stop Maternal Deaths

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/upshot/maternal-deaths-policy-neglect.html

Upshot
The New Health Care
What’s Missing in the Effort to Stop Maternal Deaths
The U.S. could prevent two-thirds of deaths during or within a year of pregnancy, research suggests.
Austin Frakt
July 13, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET


“According to the best data available… the United States could prevent two-thirds of maternal deaths during or within a year of pregnancy. Policies and practices to do so are well understood; we just haven’t employed them.”