Pregnant women with Covid face MUCH higher risks: Mothers-to-be were 20 times more likely to die before giving birth and their infants may have to spend more time in NICUs, study suggests
Researchers compared 706 pregnant women who had contracted COVID-19 and 1,424 pregnant women without the disease from 18 countries
Infected mothers-to-be had a 76% higher risk of preeclampsia - high blood pressure in pregnancy - and were 59% more likely to give birth prematurely
Expectant women with COVID-19 were five times more likely to be admitted to ICUs and 22 times more likely to die
Fever and shortness of breath were linked to 2.56 greater risk of maternal complications and 4.97 times higher risk of complications for infants
A new study from the University of Washington, Seattle, found that pregnant women were 13.6 times more likely to die than Americans in their 20s and 30s who were not expecting.