Maternal Mortality Rate Due to Blood Clots Jumps by 36% in 2022

And a 139% increase for early pregnancy deaths.

The most recent Maternal Mortality Data Brief was released by Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK). This report looked at maternal deaths (women who died during or soon after pregnancy) in the UK between 2020-2022.

When compared with the 2019-21 data there was a statistically non-significant increase in the overall maternal death rate, meaning the observed increase is not sufficient to confidently assert that the increase is real rather than random variations or chance.

However, when compared with the pre-pandemic 2017-2019 data, there was a statistically significant increase in the overall maternal death rate, meaning they are confident that there has been a real increase. The report says that “this increase remained statistically significant when deaths due to COVID-19 were excluded”.

So even if we accept that Covid is causing more mothers to die, there is something else showing up that is also causing a statistically significant increase.

In fact, the maternal death rate has jumped so high, it has reached a level last seen almost 20 years ago (2003-05).

Even when comparing to the recent pre-pandemic years (2017-19), the death rate has jumped 53% from 8.79 deaths per 100,000 maternities to 13.41.

Even including the Covid-19 deaths, up to 2022, the leading cause of death during pregnancy or within six weeks of a pregnancy ending was thrombosis and thromboembolism. Thrombosis is a medical condition in which a blood clot forms within a blood vessel, disrupting blood flow. And thromboembolism is where the clot breaks off and travels through the bloodstream to another part of the body where it causes a blockage.

In the 2018-20 data, the rate of death due to blood clots was under 1.4 per 100,000 maternities and was only fourth on the list. Obviously, this includes a year’s worth of Covid data but the rate was not any higher than usual. In 2019-2021, this rose to 1.6 per 100,000 before jumping in 2020-2022 to 2.17, a 36% increase from the previous year’s data.

Early pregnancy deaths also jumped by 9% from 0.68 to 0.74 per 100,000 maternities. However, when compared with pre-Covid data (2016-2018 & 2017-2019), the jump rockets to a 139% increase.

And finally late deaths also jumped. From a pre-pandemic rate of 13.06 per 100,000 maternities, to 13.75 in 2020, 15.09 in 2021 and 16.12 in 2022. From 2019 to 2022, this represents a 24% increase.

So there is a statistically significant increase in maternal death rates which can’t be attributed to Covid, what could be causing it? It’s causing blood clot deaths to rise as well as early and late pregnancy deaths.

Of course, I know many of you are shouting ‘the vaccines’. We know the vaccines have caused clots and deaths from clotting so why haven’t MBRRACE compared the rates in vaccinated versus unvaccinated women?

If it’s not Covid what else could have caused rates to jump up from 2021. The logical conclusion would be to investigate the vaccination status of the mothers who sadly died. It would be stupid not to. In fact, if MBRRACE wants to reduce risk to mothers and babies, it has a duty to. Perhaps it was the vaccines, perhaps it wasn’t. But at least it could be ruled out and then they could move on to try to identify and remove another cause.

But vaccines and vaccine safety have become a quasi-religion which must not be questioned and therefore if MBRRACE have looked at the vaccination status, it is unlikely they will ever release the raw data.