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During Coronavirus Lockdowns, Some Doctors Wondered: Where Are the Preemies? – The New York Times

Hospitals in several countries saw dips in premature births, which could be a starting point for future research.

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The study period went through the end of April. By the end of June, with the national lockdown easing, Dr. Philip said there had still been very few early preemies born in his hospital. In two decades, he said, he had never seen anything like these numbers.
While the Irish team was digging into its data, researchers in Denmark were doing the same thing, driven by curiosity over a nearly empty NICU. Dr. Michael Christiansen of the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen and his colleagues used newb…

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