{"id":9789,"date":"2021-05-13T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2021-05-14T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:18:16","slug":"perinatal-outcomes-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-ontario-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/13\/perinatal-outcomes-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-ontario-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Perinatal Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were no differences observed in the frequency of preterm birth (7.5%) and stillbirth (0.5%) between a cohort of births during the COVID-19 pandemic (n=67,747) occurring between March and September 2020 and a cohort of pre-pandemic births (n=348,633) occurring within the same calendar period between 2015 and 2019 according to administrative data in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 The frequency of very preterm birth was slightly lower among births that occurred during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period (1.2% vs 1.3%; aOR=0.91). There were also no differences in extreme preterm birth, severe small for gestational age, neonatal intensive care unit admission, or neonatal death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simpson et al.\u00a0(May 12, 2021). Perinatal Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Network Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.10104\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.10104<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were no differences observed in the frequency of preterm birth (7.5%) and stillbirth (0.5%) between a cohort of births during the COVID-19 pandemic (n=67,747) occurring between March and September 2020 and a cohort of pre-pandemic births (n=348,633) occurring within the same calendar period between 2015 and 2019 according to administrative data in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/13\/perinatal-outcomes-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-ontario-canada\/\">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":[215,50,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-infants","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","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=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}