{"id":121997,"date":"2021-04-26T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/clear-link-emerges-between-covid-19-and-pregnancy-complications"},"modified":"2021-04-26T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:22:21","slug":"clear-link-emerges-between-covid-19-and-pregnancy-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/clear-link-emerges-between-covid-19-and-pregnancy-complications","title":{"rendered":"Clear link emerges between COVID-19 and pregnancy complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clear-link-emerges-between-covid-19-and-pregnancy-complications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study also linked COVID-19 to a 60% to 97% increased rate of preterm birth, and\u2014 in infected women with a fever and shortness of breath\u2014to a fivefold increase in neonatal complications such as immature lungs, brain damage, and eye disorders. About 13% of babies tested positive for the virus, and cesarean delivery was linked to a higher risk of transmission. Breastfeeding didn\u2019t appear to transmit the virus\u2014a small bit of good news.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New study bolsters the case for vaccinating pregnant women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study also linked COVID-19 to a 60% to 97% increased rate of preterm birth, and\u2014 in infected women with a fever and shortness of breath\u2014to a fivefold increase in neonatal complications such as immature lungs, brain damage, and eye disorders. About 13% of babies tested positive for the virus, and cesarean delivery was linked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}