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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