Pregnant women with Covid-19 are 15 times more likely to die, 14 times more likely to need to be intubated, and 22 times more likely to have pre-term birth than those who are uninfected, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open. As the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the US, causing a spike in cases and stress on hospitals and ICUs...doctors say they’re seeing an unprecedented number of pregnant women critically ill with COVID-19. “None of us has ever seen this magnitude of really, really sick women at one time,” Dr. Akila Subramaniam, an associate professor at the University of Alabama’s Birmingham Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine told @nbcnews. She estimates a tripling or even quadrupling of pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19. As of July 31, only 23% of those who are pregnant had received at least one COVID vaccine dose. We know a lot of people still have questions -- so we went right to the expert — Dr. Cindy M. Duke (@drcindymduke), America's only dual fertility expert and virologist to have her answer all your pregnancy and vaccine-related questions.


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