{"id":5709,"date":"2020-04-07T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:22:20","slug":"why-are-pregnant-women-susceptible-to-covid-19-an-immunological-viewpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/why-are-pregnant-women-susceptible-to-covid-19-an-immunological-viewpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are pregnant women susceptible to COVID-19? An immunological Viewpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article provides details on why pregnant women may be more susceptible to COVID-19, and the potential maternal and fetal complications from an immunological viewpoint.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pregnant women may be more susceptible to COVID-19 since pregnant women are vulnerable to respiratory infection in general. Liu et al reiterate that there is no evidence for vertical transmission of the virus in pregnant women with COVID-19, however, they are more likely to have preterm deliveries.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liu et al. (Apr 6, 2020). Why are pregnant women susceptible to COVID-19? An immunological <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Viewpoint. Jour of Reprod Immunol. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jri.2020.103122\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jri.2020.103122<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides details on why pregnant women may be more susceptible to COVID-19, and the potential maternal and fetal complications from an immunological viewpoint.\u00a0 Pregnant women may be more susceptible to COVID-19 since pregnant women are vulnerable to respiratory infection in general. Liu et al reiterate that there is no evidence for vertical transmission&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/why-are-pregnant-women-susceptible-to-covid-19-an-immunological-viewpoint\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}