Serious SARS-CoV-2 infections—or long COVID afterward—can endanger mothers and their babies
Women seem to be more affected than men, says Jeanette Brown, an intensive care doctor and medical director of the University of Utah’s COVID-19 Long-Hauler Clinic. Most range in age from their 20s to their 50s, were healthy before infection, and have had symptoms that appear, disappear, wax, or wane.
Midwife Chemin Perez checks on a patient's progress during her labor at the New Life Midwifery Birth Center in Arcadia, California. Recent studies of pregnant women who contracted the virus before the vaccine was available reveal they were at 40 percent higher risk of complications and were at greater risk of landing in intensive care, ending up on a ventilator, or dying when compared with uninfected pregnant women.
The results were sobering. Overall, those who had the virus were at 40 percent higher risk of complications and were at greater risk of landing in intensive care, ending up on a ventilator, or dying when compared with uninfected pregnant women. Most of those who experienced severe problems had been hit hard by the virus. “For those with moderate or higher [COVID-19] disease severity, they had a doubling—100 percent increase—in risk,” Metz says. That group also had more Cesarean sections.
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