COVID-19 and Impact on Pregnant Women

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is the viral infection pandemic that has spread all over the world. Although all people are prone to the infection almost equally, some of them after catching infection may produce more severe clinical symptoms. These are called vulnerable groups and pregnant women are one of them.

Summary: Pregnant women were thought to be not affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first wave, but recent observations from the second wave which harbors the mutated versions of novel coronavirus, said to be more virulent and lethal, suggests that pregnant women are not only vulnerable to catching the infection but they can show severe clinical outcomes. Also case fatalities, preterm births are also high among COVID-19 infected pregnant women.

Conclusion: More vaccination among pregnant women is needed to safeguard them as the severity of the symptoms is lowered post-vaccination. To solidify more results, more comprehensive and frequent studies are needed so that correlation can be established.