Utah Department of Health reports 1,517 new COVID-19 cases Friday, 35 deaths
SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah Health Dr. Torri Metz, the lead author of a new national study on COVID-19 and pregnancy, said Friday that women who’ve experienced mild or moderate bouts with the virus don’t face a higher risk of complications.
Metz said that should be “reassuring” to pregnant women who don’t get that sick after catching the coronavirus. However, the study also found that pregnant women with severe or critical cases of COVID-19 do have a higher risk of complications and even death.
The study comes as the Utah Department of Health reported 1,517 new COVID-19 cases Friday, and a total of 35 additional deaths — including 16 that should have been reported Thursday but were omitted due to a data transmission error and six that occurred before Jan. 1.
Utah’s death toll from the virus now stands at 1,655.
Another 9,384 people have been tested for the virus in Utah, and the rolling seven-day average for positive tests is 1,550 per day and 18.19% for percent of positive laboratory tests. Currently, 446 people in Utah are hospitalized with COVID-19.
Medical records of 1,219 pregnant women from 33 hospitals in 14 states who had tested positive for COVID-19 were examined from March 1, 2020, to July 31, 2020, for the study. Of that group, 47% were asymptomatic, 27% had a mild case of the virus, 14% a moderate case, 8% a severe case and 4% were critically ill.
Four women in the study, 0.3%, died from COVID-19. That’s a much higher death rate than the 17.4 deaths per 100,000 live births for women without the deadly virus reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC had already identified COVID-19 as putting pregnant women at greater risk of dying and experiencing serious complications compared to women who are not pregnant and contract the coronavirus. The study details who is at the most risk.
According to the findings, the pregnant women who became severely or critically ill with the coronavirus were older, overweight and more likely to have asthma, high blood pressure, diabetes or other underlying medical conditions.
Not only were they more likely to die, they also faced serious complications, including giving birth prematurely, a cesarean delivery and postpartum hemorrhaging. Some of those complications can cause long-term health problems for both mothers and their babies.
Metz said the study also found that 1% of the newborns tested positive for COVID-19.
The study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was presented Friday at the annual meeting of the the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
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