No Pregnancy Won T Increase Your Risk Of Severe Covid 19 Illness
As pregnant women can at times be more vulnerable to severe illness from viruses (think: influenza!), the odds of the coronavirus disproportionately affecting pregnant people has been a concern as we learn more about COVID-19 and how it affects different bodies. However, a new study out of the UK found that pregnant women are not more likely than other women to experience severe illness from coronavirus. Researchers at Oxford University and Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists examined the cases of 427 pregnant women admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 between March and mid-April, as Reuters notes, and found that less than 0....