Are pregnant ladies and their infants in danger of extreme Coronavirus?
Date: 20/3/21
Source : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/18/3/21
Summary: A continuous survey affirms that pregnant ladies are bound to create serious Coronavirus.
It features prior conditions and ethnic foundation as contributing variables.
Be that as it may, the analysts depict the danger to infants as "low."
The Story: A living systematic review and meta-analysis in The BMJ, scientists from the United Kingdom, along with international collaborators, continue to collate and analyze emerging evidence of how COVID-19 affects women and their babies during and shortly after pregnancy.
In the latest update, the team confirms that pregnant women attending or admitted to the hospital from whatever cause continue to be at a greater risk of severe COVID-19 than nonpregnant women of similar ages.
Nonwhite ethnicity was linked with a greater likelihood of ICU admission, but not necessarily with severe COVID-19.
Meanwhile, babies of mothers with COVID-19 were more likely to require admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The authors note that this could be due to hospital policies for observation and quarantine of babies in contact with COVID-19.
Dr. John Allotey, the study’s first author and a lecturer in epidemiology and women’s health at the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., comments: “Pregnant women should be considered a high risk group, particularly those identified to have risk factors, for severe COVID-19 based on our findings.”
“Mothers should also be reassured that the risks to their babies are very low,” he continues.
By: Written by Yella Hewings-Martin, Ph.D. on March 18, 2021 —
Fact checked by Hilary Guite, FFPH, MRCGP.
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