Tourist spending in Henrico eclipses $1.3 billion; maternal mortality rates rise in Virginia
Henrico Newsflash – October 5, 2022
Tourist spending in Henrico eclipses $1.3 billion
Visitors spent more than $1.3 billion in Henrico County during 2021 – the highest total of any locality in central Virginia and the fifth-highest in Virginia, according to an annual study released Oct. 4 for the Virginia Tourism Corp.
The total included sales of $329 million on food and beverage, $185 million on lodging, $151 million on retail, $131 million on recreation and $552 million on transportation.
As maternal mortality rates rise in Virginia, health officials launch interviews into deaths
Preliminary data show Virginia’s maternal mortality rate more than doubled between 2018 and 2020, a sharp increase encouraging state officials to start doing ground-level interviews to figure out what’s driving pregnancy-related deaths.
According to early numbers from Virginia’s Maternal Mortality Review Team, the state’s maternal mortality rate in 2018 was 37.1 deaths per 100,000 cases.
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