An analysis of more than 400,000 women who are between 15 and 44 years old and diagnosed with COVID-19 revealed that those who were pregnant had a 70% increased risk of dying compared to those who were not, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Invasive ventilation, intensive care unit admission and ECMO were also more common among pregnant than nonpregnant women. ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It's a procedure that removes blood from your body, runs it through a machine that clears it of carbon dioxide and inserts oxygen-rich blood back into the body.
The new study, released Monday, comes after an earlier report from June that found similar results on pregnant women and COVID-19 — except for an increased risk of death from the disease.
