{"id":8101,"date":"2020-07-10T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:18:48","slug":"change-in-the-incidence-of-stillbirth-and-preterm-delivery-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/10\/change-in-the-incidence-of-stillbirth-and-preterm-delivery-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in the Incidence of Stillbirth and Preterm Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khalil et al. found that the incidence of stillbirth was significantly higher during\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pandemic than prior (9.31 per 1000 births vs 2.38 per 1000 births, p=0.01)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at St. George&#8217;s University Hospital, London\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">even though none of the mothers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were known be infected with SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors hypothesize that the increase in stillbirth could be directly due to SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic women who were not tested for infection or it could be due to indirect effects<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as reluctance to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">seek medical care\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for situations including<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reduced fetal movements.<\/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\">Khalil et al. (July 10, 2020). Change in the Incidence of Stillbirth and Preterm Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12746\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12746<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>Khalil et al. found that the incidence of stillbirth was significantly higher during\u00a0the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic than prior (9.31 per 1000 births vs 2.38 per 1000 births, p=0.01)\u00a0at St. George&#8217;s University Hospital, London\u00a0even though none of the mothers\u00a0were known be infected with SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0The authors hypothesize that the increase in stillbirth could be directly due to SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/10\/change-in-the-incidence-of-stillbirth-and-preterm-delivery-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">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-8101","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\/8101","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=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}