{"id":80,"date":"2020-04-14T13:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T23:56:34","slug":"management-of-pregnant-women-infected-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/2020\/04\/14\/management-of-pregnant-women-infected-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Lancet: Management of pregnant women infected with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"section-paragraph\">&#8220;Since December, 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, has become a global public health threat.<sup><a id=\"back-bib1\" class=\"reference-citations__ctrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext#bib1\" data-db-target-for=\"bib1-d67978e91\">1 <\/a><\/sup>On Feb 28, 2020, WHO upgraded their assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level. By March 10, 2020, 116\u2008166 cases have been reported globally, causing 4088 deaths. The epidemic has spread to 118 countries around the world.<sup><a id=\"back-bib2\" class=\"reference-citations__ctrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext#bib2\" data-db-target-for=\"bib2-d67978e95\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"section-paragraph\">With immunocompromised status and physiological adaptive changes during pregnancy, pregnant women could be more susceptible to COVID-19 infection than the general population. As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading, maternal management and fetal safety become a major concern, but there is scarce information of assessment and management of pregnant women infected with COVID-19, and the potential risk of vertical transmission is unclear. In <em>The Lancet Infectious Diseases<\/em>, Nan Yu and colleagues<sup><a id=\"back-bib3\" class=\"reference-citations__ctrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext#bib3\" data-db-target-for=\"bib3-d67978e103\">3 <\/a><\/sup>report the clinical features and obstetric and neonatal outcomes of pregnancy with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The findings of the study provide some indications for clinical assessment and management of pregnant women with COVID-19, but questions remain on how to manage pregnant women infected with COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext\">Link to Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"section-paragraph\">&#8220;Since December, 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, has become a global public health threat.<a id=\"back-bib1\" class=\"reference-citations__ctrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext#bib1\" data-db-target-for=\"bib1-d67978e91\">1 <\/a>On Feb 28, 2020, WHO upgraded their assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level. By March 10, 2020, 116\u2008166 cases have been reported globally, causing 4088 deaths. The epidemic has spread to 118 countries around the world.<a id=\"back-bib2\" class=\"reference-citations__ctrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(20)30191-2\/fulltext#bib2\" data-db-target-for=\"bib2-d67978e95\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"section-paragraph\">With immunocompromised status and physiological adaptive changes during pregnancy, pregnant women could be more susceptible to COVID-19 infection than the general population. As COVID-19 &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/2020\/04\/14\/management-of-pregnant-women-infected-with-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}