Speaking At Yale School of Public Health, Surgeon General Urges Caution

Serious disparities in mortality remain along racial and ethnic lines. Women from underserved groups, especially African American women, are as much as six times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as their peers. As many as 60 percent of maternal deaths are preventable.

The Surgeon General’s office is examining what is happening at the local level and is working on a “call to action” on maternal health that will be released later this year.

“Health equity has to be embedded into everything [we] do,” Adams said.

As a novel coronavirus spreads throughout the world and new infections mount in the United States, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams urged people to be cautious, concerned and, of course, prepared.

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Speaking at YSPH, Surgeon General Urges Caution, Calm in the Face of Coronavirus

As a novel coronavirus spreads throughout the world and new infections mount in the United States, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams urged people to be cautious, concerned and, of course, prepared.