New research affirms the added risk that pregnant people and their families face from covid-19.

Data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that pregnant people infected with covid-19 are more likely to have a stillbirth; this link appears to have become stronger after the emergence of the Delta variant.

Studies have suggested for some time that covid-19 is more dangerous for pregnant people.

This new research, published by the CDC last week, provides a closer look at the risk of stillbirth posed by the coronavirus, particularly the Delta variant.

But individuals infected with covid-19 at the time of delivery were still significantly more likely to have a stillbirth.

Overall, about 1.26% of infected pregnant people had a delivery that ended in stillbirth, compared to 0.64% of those not infected.