{"id":8041,"date":"2020-07-08T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:42:19","slug":"pregnancy-and-postpartum-outcomes-in-a-universally-tested-population-for-sars-cov-2-in-new-york-city-a-prospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/pregnancy-and-postpartum-outcomes-in-a-universally-tested-population-for-sars-cov-2-in-new-york-city-a-prospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy and Postpartum Outcomes in a Universally Tested Population for SARS-CoV-2 in New York City: A Prospective Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">All pregnant p<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">atients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who were admitted for delivery at three New York City hospitals were screened for SARS-CoV-2 using RT-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing of nasopharyngeal specimens<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(first 28 days of universal screening that started on March 22, 2020)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Of 675 people admitted for delivery, 10% were positive for SARS-CoV-2, among whom most (79%) were asymptomatic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cesarean delivery and post-partum complications were more common among SARS-CoV-2 positive p<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">atients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(45% v<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a031% and 13% v<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a05%, respectively). Placental pathology revealed a higher frequency of fetal vascular\u00a0malperfusion\u00a0in patients with vs. without SARS-CoV-2 (48% v<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a011%). None of the delivered infants were positive for SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prabhu et al. (July 7, 2020). Pregnancy and Postpartum Outcomes in a Universally Tested Population for SARS-CoV-2 in New York City: A Prospective Cohort Study. BJOG\u202fInternational Journal of Obstetrics and\u00a0Gynaecology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1471-0528.16403\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1471-0528.16403<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All pregnant patients\u00a0who were admitted for delivery at three New York City hospitals were screened for SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR\u00a0testing of nasopharyngeal specimens\u00a0(first 28 days of universal screening that started on March 22, 2020). Of 675 people admitted for delivery, 10% were positive for SARS-CoV-2, among whom most (79%) were asymptomatic.\u00a0\u00a0 Cesarean delivery and post-partum complications&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/pregnancy-and-postpartum-outcomes-in-a-universally-tested-population-for-sars-cov-2-in-new-york-city-a-prospective-cohort-study\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","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=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}