{"id":4686,"date":"2021-02-22T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:59:16","slug":"higher-sars-cov-2-infection-rate-in-pregnant-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/22\/higher-sars-cov-2-infection-rate-in-pregnant-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rate in Pregnant Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among pregnant individuals in Washington State (13.9\/1,000 deliveries) was 70% higher than the rate among similarly-aged adults, which was not completely explained by universal screening at delivery. 240 pregnant patients with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified from March 1-June 3, 2020, and the proportion of cases in pregnancy among most ethnic minority groups was 2-4 fold higher than the distribution of women in Washington State who delivered live births in 2018. The proportion of infected pregnant patients receiving medical care in a non-English language was also higher than estimates of limited English proficiency in Washington State (30.4% versus 7.6%).<\/p>\n

Lokken et al. (Feb 9, 2021). Higher SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rate in Pregnant Patients. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. <\/i>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajog.2021.02.011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among pregnant individuals in Washington State (13.9\/1,000 deliveries) was 70% higher than the rate among similarly-aged adults, which was not completely explained by universal screening at delivery. 240 pregnant patients with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified from March 1-June 3, 2020, and the proportion of cases in pregnancy among most ethnic…<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,50,29,68],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health","tag-washington","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}