Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Ks_V67XF_m0   Most women with the novel coronavirus can successfully deliver CoVid negative babies.  This according to a Indian meta-analysis of 50 case series that studied 387 women who delivered 391 babies pre-published on the medrixiv.org pre-print web site.  Ninety-five percent contracted the viral disease during their third trimester.   Ninety-six percent of the mothers had x-ray diagnosed pneumonia, and 11% of women required mechanical ventilation.  There was a 3% maternal death rate.  Eighty percent were c-section deliveries.     Neonatal CoVid positivity, that is vertical transmission, was 8%. There were 25% pre-term births.  Only 8% developed respiratory distress syndrome.  Stillbirths represented 1.5% and 1% of the neonates sadly died.    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062356v2.full.pdf   #covid #coronavirus #pregnancy #verticaltransmission