Pregnant women with Covid-19 may be at increased risk of preterm delivery, CDC study suggests
(WorldNews Health)

Pregnant women with Covid-19 who are hospitalized may be at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely, a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. Data showed that 12.6% of live births among hospitalized women with Covid-19 in the study were preterm compared with 10% of births that were observed in the general US population in 2018. `In this study, preterm births occurred approximately three times more frequently in symptomatic pregnant women than in those who were...