What pregnant people need to know about COVID-19
Based on limited information, it doesn’t appear that pregnant people are more likely to catch COVID-19 than anyone else or to experience severe symptoms. (Pexels/)Because of the coronavirus’ novelty to humans, there are many issues that we still haven’t pinned down—like how many different ways the virus can be transmitted and whether its spread will slow when warm weather arrives. How COVID-19 affects pregnancy is another area where there’s little that scientists know for certain.“At this time there are more questions than there are answers,” says Ashley Roman, director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at NYU Langone Health. “This a rapidly evolving situation [and] we’re being bombarded with new data on a daily basis.”We aren’t completely in the dark—there are some initial reports from China on pregnant women who were diagnosed with COVID-19. And scientists can extrapolate a bit from what we know about other viruses, including the...