{"id":3110,"date":"2026-05-23T23:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ca-pregnancy-deaths-are-down-to-pre-covid-levels-but-black-moms-still-face-high-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:32:49","slug":"ca-pregnancy-deaths-are-down-to-pre-covid-levels-but-black-moms-still-face-high-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ca-pregnancy-deaths-are-down-to-pre-covid-levels-but-black-moms-still-face-high-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"CA pregnancy deaths are down to pre-COVID levels, but Black moms still face high risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Maternal deaths are finally back down to their prepandemic levels in California \u2014 and the numbers hold some lessons for future pandemics, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/yolo-jury-selection-continues-in-carlos-dominguez-retrial-in-2023-davis-stabbing-spree\/\">Yolo jury selection continues in Carlos Dominguez retrial in 2023 Davis stabbing spree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The California Pregnancy-Associated Review Committee, which convenes experts under the leadership of the state\u2019s departments of Public Health and Health Care Services to look into the causes of pregnancy- and birth-related deaths, finished reviewing 2023 maternal deaths last year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The maternal death rate had soared in 2020 and 2021 especially. Pregnancy suppresses the immune system, and dozens of pregnant women or women who had recently given birth died from COVID in California. But by 2023, the death rate stabilized to its pre-COVID level of 12 deaths per 100,000 live births. As the , however, the Black maternal death rate has also gone back to a prepandemic \u201cnormal\u201d \u2014 but that is still four times as high as the overall rate. Black women also suffered disproportionately from COVID infections.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kimberly Gregory, who chairs the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review committees, attributed the drop in part to the COVID vaccine, which is recommended during pregnancy. Medical professionals also learned how to better treat COVID cases. Gregory said the structural adaptations contained lessons for the next pandemic, noting that in another pandemic fears about fetal health should not be prioritized over protecting maternal health.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest lesson is we can\u2019t save the baby if we don\u2019t save the mom,\u201d said Gregory, who is also a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She explained that some healthcare professionals hesitated to offer pregnant people new treatments out of fear that they might cause harm to the fetus.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In the next pandemic, \u201cWe need to be aggressive about rolling out those improvements and those interventions and innovations into pregnant people instead of being concerned about, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s pregnant, we can\u2019t do that,\u2019 or, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s pregnant: That might impact the baby,\u2019\u201d Gregory said. \u201cSomething as simple as the vaccine, it was a real call to arms by the obstetricians and (the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine that said, \u2018Why are you denying this segment of the population this medication that works?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 Californians died of the virus between 2020 and the fall of 2022, with a huge spike in 2021. In that year, the state saw 21.6 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, but only 12.6 when researchers excluded people who died of COVID. None of the pregnant or recently-pregnant Californians who died of COVID from were fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>From 2019 to 2021, COVID led to 58 maternal deaths; of the dead, seven \u2014 about 12% \u2014 were Black. The Census, which records people who report their race as solely Black, found that they represented only 6% to 7% of the state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s behind California maternal deaths?<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Amid the overall drop to prepandemic numbers, Black maternal mortality dropped back to its alarmingly high prepandemic level: 47.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. The rate is four times higher than the overall death rate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/trump-deals-major-blow-to-legal-migration-forcing-most-green-card-seekers-to-leave-u-s-2\/\">Trump deals major blow to legal migration, forcing most green-card seekers to leave U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The rates include deaths due to medical causes \u201crelated to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management,\u201d wrote Dr. Christine Morton, who manages the California Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review; the number would not include suicides, homicides, overdoses or most other injuries. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that homicide is the leading cause of death for people who are pregnant and up to 42 days postpartum in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>As COVID ebbed due to an aggressive public health response and improved treatments, including vaccines, data show that cardiovascular disease became the leading cause of maternal deaths.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Black women, Gregory said, seemed to have a higher incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare form of heart failure arising during or shortly after pregnancy. White women, meanwhile, had higher incidences of heart disease related to methamphetamine use.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gregory said that she\u2019s excited about many of the interventions and California Maternal Care Quality Collaborative \u201ctoolkits\u201d being rolled out in hospitals across the state to address recommendations from experts reviewing maternal deaths. The hemorrhage toolkit and emergency room trainings on postpartum blood pressure, she said, had \u201cbeen a huge success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStandardizing the treatment of hemorrhage, standardizing the measurement of blood loss so that it\u2019s not what you think, it\u2019s what you know,\u201d she said. With the toolkit that\u2019s been deployed statewide, she said, \u201cEvery hospital has a hemorrhage protocol; they have a hemorrhage cart so that the medication you need is on the floor and immediately available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>For high blood pressure, or hypertension, investigators realized that women sometimes went to the emergency room with blood pressure levels that didn\u2019t seem particularly high \u2014 higher than 160\/110 \u2014 but were concerning in someone who had recently given birth. Obstetricians and other maternal healthcare providers were well aware, but primary care and emergency room providers weren\u2019t always flagging their blood pressure because they didn\u2019t always ask whether the patients were postpartum.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The management of hypertension is now included in continuing medical education for both OB-GYNs and emergency room doctors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to significantly lower the number of deaths associated with preeclampsia,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cThis has been demonstrated pretty significantly among Black women, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/two-pedestrians-killed-in-separate-sacramento-county-traffic-incidents-coroner-says\/\">Two pedestrians killed in separate Sacramento County traffic incidents, coroner says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maternal mortality rate in California decreased back to 2019 levels, before the COVID pandemic. 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