Experts address COVID-19 vaccine myths, safety evidence, and how to frame the benefits of vaccination in pregnancy.
|Articles|January 12, 2015
OB/GYN Stat Bite: Fetal and perinatal mortality
A new CDC report shows that while perinatal mortality rates are continuing to decline-down 10% since 2000-the US fetal mortality rate for the latest study period (2006–2012) did not improve.
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