Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Among Pregnant Women With and Without COVID-19 Infection: The INTERCOVID Multinational Cohort Study
José Villar, Shabina Ariff, Robert B. Gunier, Ramachandran Thiruvengadam, Stephen Rauch, Kholin A.M. Kholin, Paola Roggero, Federico Prefumo, Marynéa Silva do Vale, Jorge Arturo Cardona–Pérez, Nerea Maíz, Irene Cetin, Valeria Savasi, Philippe Deruelle, Sarah Rae Easter, Joanna Sichitiu, Constanza P. Soto Conti, Ernawati Ernawati, Mohak Mhatre, Jagjit S. Teji, Becky Liu, Carola Capelli, M. Oberto, Laura Salazar, Michael G. Gravett, Paolo Ivo Cavoretto, Vincent Bizor Nachinab, Hadiza Galadanci, D. Orós, Adejumoke Idowu Ayede, Loı̈c Sentilhes, Babagana Bako, Mónica Savorani, Hellas Cena, Perla K. García-May, Saturday Etuk, Roberto Casale, Sherief Abd‐Elsalam, Satoru Ikenoue, Muhammad Baffah Aminu, Carmen Vecciarelli, Eduardo Alfredo Duro, Mustapha Ado Usman, Yetunde O. John-Akinola, Ricardo Nieto, Enrico Ferrazi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Ana Langer, Stephen Kennedy, Aris T. Papageorghiou
Abstract
(Abstracted from JAMA Pediatr 2021;175:817–826) At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the extent of the risks of a COVID infection during pregnancy were unknown. During the start of the pandemic, there were only a few studies published comparing outcomes between pregnant women with and without COVID-19 infections.