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Why We Still Don’t Know Enough About Covid-19 and Pregnancy - The New York Times
Jul 10, 2020 2 mins, 1 sec

The C.D.C.’s most recent data on pregnancy and Covid-19, which includes the full month of June, showed 10,537 pregnant women tested positive for Covid-19.

is expanding a separate data collection system that gathers information on pregnant women and their children through the first three years of life to include surveillance for Covid-19 in pregnancy.

Medical Center, referring to the limited data on pregnant women and babies that is guiding policymakers.

has also started another large, national study for pregnant women in their first trimester called ASPIRE that will follow about 10,000 women and their babies from the start of pregnancy through delivery and up to 18 months postpartum.

study, the researchers found that pregnant women with Covid-19 were more likely to be hospitalized than nonpregnant women who had the virus, but it did not say whether the pregnant women were hospitalized because of labor and delivery, or because of complications from Covid-19.

The data on whether or not infected pregnant women were admitted to the I.C.U.

Using the data that was available, the researchers determined that pregnant women with Covid-19 were more likely to be admitted to the I.C.U.

than nonpregnant women (the numbers appeared to be slightly more than the percentage of pregnant women admitted in the past, when compared to data from a 2010 study).

Similarly, the study found pregnant women with Covid-19 were more likely to end up on mechanical ventilators than infected nonpregnant women, though the differences were quite small.

study, it remains a “signal” that pregnant women could be more susceptible to severe Covid-19 symptoms, Dr.

A study of 53 women in Sweden published in July found that the risk of requiring intensive care “may be higher” in infected pregnant women, compared with nonpregnant women of similar age.

However, not all the pregnant women were admitted for Covid-19 symptoms and there was no way to tell how many nonpregnant women were admitted for Covid-19 versus other conditions.

Obstetric Surveillance System showed in May that 10 percent of 427 pregnant women with the coronavirus admitted to hospitals between March 1 and April 14 needed respiratory support.

data found a similar pattern, though race data was missing for 20 percent of the pregnant women in the study.

In contrast, less than a quarter of women who gave birth in 2019 were Hispanic, yet they made up 46 percent of Covid-19 pregnancies.

Black women made up 22 percent of Covid-19 pregnancies and 15 percent of the women who gave birth in 2019.

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