Washington Study Finds Pregnant Patients With COVID-19 Have a Higher Risk of Death, Hospitalization – Centralia Chronicle

For the first several months of the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assured pregnant patients they were in no greater danger from the novel coronavirus than anyone else.
It wasn’t until the agency analyzed national data last summer that they discovered pregnant people with COVID-19 appeared to be at higher risk for serious illness and hospitalization.
Now, a new study from Washington state confirms those results and also finds a much higher risk of death than previously…

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