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Pregnant women with COVID-19 are 40 TIMES more likely to die than mothers-to-be no... - C C - Nov 30, 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10259133/Pregnant-women-COVID-19-40-TIMES-likely-die-childbirth-not-infected.html

KEY POINTS:
  • Pregnant women infected with Covid are far more likely to require ICU care or die in childbirth compared to those who don't catch the virus, a new study finds
  • Researchers at the Université de Paris studied COVID-19's impacts on over 200,000 pregnant women in France during the first wave of the pandemic
  • Pregnant women with Covid were 40 times as likely to die during childbirth compared to those who weren't infected
  • Covid patients were also more likely to experience pregnancy complications
  • The researchers encourage pregnant women to get vaccinated in order to protect them against severe Covid outcomes
  • About 35% of pregnant people in the U.S. are vaccinated, according to the CDC
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RE: Pregnant women with COVID-19 are 40 TIMES more likely to die than mothers-to-be no... - Syne - Nov 30, 2021

Data from the first wave, a different variant with markedly different outcomes, is already obsolete.