Pregnant women with COVID-19 are 40 TIMES more likely to die than mothers-to-be no...

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