Research conducted across a dozen countries finds infection also poses health risks for unborn children
But differences in how studies are done and the patients involved have made it hard to reach detailed conclusions about the impact of the disease, particularly in low-income countries, where few studies have been carried out.
Dr Emily Smith, an assistant professor of global health at George Washington University in Washington DC, and her colleagues found that, in the studies, typically 3% of pregnant women with Covid were admitted to intensive care, four times the figure for uninfected women. About 2% of those infected needed mechanical ventilation to help them breathe.
“We found that women who have Covid in pregnancy are at greater risk of ending up in the intensive care unit or even dying or having some pregnancy-related problems like pre-eclampsia, as compared to their peers who were pregnant at the same time but didn’t get Covid,” Smith said.
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