The report looks at 1.2 million deliveries in 736 hospitals from March 2020 to September 2021 in which 21,653 of the women had COVID-19.
) report found that the chances of stillbirth is four times higher after the emergence of the Delta variant for pregnant women with COVID-19.
"These findings underscore the importance of COVID-19 prevention strategies, including vaccination before or during pregnancy,'' CDC researcher Carla DeSisto and co-authors said. As of September, about 97 percent of pregnant women hospitalized because of COVID this year were unvaccinated, according to The Hill.Pregnant women with COVID face increased chances for stillbirths and the risk spikes to four times higher with the Delta variant compared with uninfected women, according to new CDC data. Above, a pregnant and intubated COVID-19 patient sits in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on August 31, 2021.
"What's really sad is we have 10 months of a vaccine that's been highly effective and we just can't convince people to take advantage of this,'' Turrentine said.
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