Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MBhMynoyc9U   Should a pregnant woman contract CoVid, she is less likely to show initial symptoms but more than twice as likely to end up in the ICU on a ventilator and nearly twice as likely to die.  British investigators performed a meta-analysis of 73 studies covering 67, 271 pregnant women.   Pregnancy reduces chance of initial fevers, shortness of breath, and muscle aches by an average of 60%.  Even so, it increases odds of ICU admission by 2.1 times, the need for a ventilator by 2.6, times, risk of profound respiratory failure doubles, and death from any cause rises 1.8 fold.  Mothers with CoVid are 1.5 times as likely to have a pre-term birth and their babies are nearly 5 times more likely to require a NICU stay.    Unvaccinated pregnant women who have not experienced a previous CoVid infection should be monitored extremely carefully and managed aggressively.   https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3320   #CoVid #pregnancy #icu #ventilator #mortality