Mind blowing: The CDC is publishing maternal mortality figures it knows are wildly wrong - Kevin Drum

As you know, the maternal mortality rate has been increasing steadily in the US. Except, as Noah Smith informs us, it turns out it hasn't. This is a bizarre story. In 2003 the standard US death certificate added a pregnancy checkbox. As more and more states adopted the new certificate, reports of maternal mortality went up. But it was all a

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