VANCOUVER --
A national surveillance project looking at pregnancy and COVID-19 in Canada has released preliminary findings showing expectant mothers with the disease have a slightly greater chance of hospitalization, ICU admission and early labour.
UBC obstetrics and gynaecology professor Dr. Deborah Money, who is leading the national project, told CTV News the early findings are based on information from 430 cases from B.C., Alberta and Ontario, and reflects a time period from March 1 to Sept. 30.
“For otherwise young, healthy people, these pregnant woman did have slightly higher rates of admission to hospital and admission to an intensive care unit, when we compared to both the U.S. rates of that same age group in adult women, and a sampling we looked at from B.C. and Ontario,” she said, and added there was a 2.3 per cent rate of ICU admission in the pregnant group compared to 0.4 per cent in the other group.