American doctors CDC: coronavirus in pregnant women increases the risk of stillbirth US Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
American doctors studied the data of 1.2 million women in labor from March 2020 to September 2021. Despite the fact that stillbirth was rare, experts found a link between COVID-19 and the birth of dead babies: COVID-19 diagnosed in patients increased the risk of losing a child to 0.98 percent. Especially high rates of stillbirth were during the period of dominance in the United States of the strain “delta” – up to 2.7 percent. According to scientists, the course of coronavirus causes hypoperfusion (decreased blood supply) and inflammation of the placenta.
Earlier, gynecologist-endocrinologist Elena Velikzhanina warned about the consequences of coronavirus in pregnant women. A sick woman cannot transmit the virus to the fetus, but there is a high probability that the child can become infected after birth, so he is forced to be isolated from the sick mother.