
LISBON, Portugal — Compared with their nonpregnant, reproductive-aged counterparts, pregnant women were less likely to acquire COVID-19 but were significantly more likely to be hospitalized or admitted to an ICU when they did.
The findings, presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, add to existing research showing the adverse outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy.
“Pregnant individuals are a special population in relation to disease,” Kiera Murison, BScH, an MPH epidemiology student in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at