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COVID and Discrimination Aggravated Maternal Mortality in Latin America
Adequate maternal care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period is essential to curbing the high maternal mortality rates in Latin America, which stopped falling due to women's health care problems during the COVID pandemic. CREDIT: Government of Tigre / ArgentinaBy Mario OsavaRIO DE JANEIRO, May 27 2022 (IPS) Brazil had the dubious distinction of champion of maternal mortality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 77 percent increase in such deaths between 2019 and 2021. A total of 1,575 women died in childbirth or in the following six weeks in the year prior to the pandemic in Latin America&...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mario Osava Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Population Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Brazil Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) Pan-American Source Type: news

The White House Wants to Achieve Herd Immunity By Letting the Virus Rip. That is Dangerous and Inhumane
On October 13 the White House confirmed that it is embracing what the Los Angeles Times editorial board calls the “let people die” strategy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy involves deliberately letting the novel coronavirus rip through the population while attempting to shield the most vulnerable, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions. This approach, roundly rejected and discredited by scientists worldwide, is at the heart of a controversial new statement, titled the Great Barrington Declaration, written by three academics with views far outside the scientific main...
Source: TIME: Health - October 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gavin Yamey Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news