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U.S. maternal mortality hit six-decade high in COVID, highest in Black women

Maternal death rates in the U.S. hit a 60-year high during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the death rate among Black women was nearly three times higher than it was for white women. CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns reports on the sharp increase in pregnancy-related deaths in Black Americans. Then, Eugene Declercq, a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health joined John Dickerson on Prime Time to discuss.

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How the pandemic has impacted businesses

Over the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected billions of people around the world, and across the U.S. business owners were forced to find ways to adapt. To discuss the impact and how it has changed the business world, we are joined by Dr. Angela Mills, an emergency care physician at NewYork-Presbyterian and the chair of the department of emergency medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Alexis Sweeney, founder and owner of the Silhouette by Alexis app; and Jesse Merchant Zuñiga, the co-founder and co-owner of Caleta and Bad Habit Ice cream.

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