Tag: Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 significantly raises risk of severe complications in pregnant women
In a recent study published in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers investigated COVID-19’s impact on severe maternal morbidity (SMM), potentially lethal complications that occur during the time of childbirth. They used declassified data from over 93,600 deliveries between March 2020 and July 2021 and found that risks, particularly those of adult respiratory distress […]