Published On Sep 18, 2020
Pregnancy
NHS
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronav...
Pregnant women have been included in the list of people at moderate risk (clinically vulnerable) as a precaution
CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-...
Pregnant people might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared to non-pregnant people
May be at increased risk for other adverse outcomes, such as preterm birth.
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/health...
Healthy pregnant women do not fall more seriously ill from COVID-19
Healthy pregnant women do not differ in how severely they are likely to fall ill from COVID-19
Compared with non-pregnant women.
Community based study
Two groups of pregnant woman
Group 1
4 million UK and 50,000 Swedish users
Group 2
1.9 million women aged 18-44 who responded to the US-based Facebook COVID symptom study
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/arch...
https://www.facebook.com/coronavirus_...
Carnegie Mellon Delphi Research Center
Group 1, UK and Sweden
Self-reported health data from 14,000 pregnant women
Of whom 629 were likely to have COVID-19 based on their symptoms
21 were hospitalised
Compared this with data from 387,000 non-pregnant female app users
25,000 were suspected to have COVID
600 ended up in hospital.
Group 2, US based
1.3 million survey responses from women
Including nearly 42,000 pregnant
2.9% of the pregnant respondents were suspected to have COVID-19
compared with 4% of the non-pregnant women
Symptoms for pregnant women, Groups 1 and 2
Similar to non-pregnant people
Persistent cough, headache, loss of taste or smell (anosmia), chest pain, sore throat and fatigue
but
Increased incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms, nausea and vomiting
In the group of pregnant women who became most severely ill with COVID-19
Which could be confused with similar symptoms that are due to the pregnancy itself
Pregnant women
Tested more frequently for coronavirus
No more likely to suffer severe symptoms of COVID-19
Or be ill for longer than those who weren’t pregnant
In the absence of any other underlying health problems
Pregnant women with existing health conditions
Lung, heart or kidney disease and diabetes
More likely to end up in hospital with COVID-19
Similar to what has been seen for comparable groups in the general population
Zika
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
Virus disease, Aedes mosquitoes
Mild, fever, rash, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, malaise or headache.
2–7 days
Most asymptomatic
Microcephaly, other congenital malformations
Preterm birth and miscarriage
Neurologic complications, Guillain-Barré syndrome, neuropathy and myelitis
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/index.html
There is no current local transmission of Zika virus in the continental United States, including Florida and Texas, which reported local transmission of Zika virus by mosquitoes in 2016-17