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Elyas Bakhtiari Mar 14, 2023

The top-line results are bad enough, but the details unsurprisingly show drastic ethnic and racial inequality in these trends.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2802602

The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents

This Viewpoint discusses increased rates in pediatric mortality by age and cause between 1999 and 2021.

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Elyas Bakhtiari

Another study where the headlines don't tell the full story about the racial inequalities driving the worsening health outcomes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/covid-pregnancy-death.html

Covid Worsened a Maternal Mortality Crisis in the U.S.

In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.

The New York Times