Science
Study Title
Covid-19: Nine in 10 pregnant women with infection when admitted for delivery are asymptomatic, small study finds
Publication
BMJ
Author(s)
Susan Mayor
Abstract
Nearly 90% of pregnant women admitted to hospital for delivery who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 have no symptoms of the infection, a small study has found.
Researchers led by Dena Goffman at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, USA, screened all 215 pregnant women admitted to two New York City hospitals from 22 March to 4 April 2020 for symptoms of covid-19 and for infection with SARS-CoV-2. The results, reported in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine showed that four women (1.9%) had fever or other symptoms of covid-19 on admission and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
Date
April 14, 2020
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