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Public health responses often lack the infrastructure to capture the impact of public health emergencies on pregnant women and infants, with limited mechanisms for linking pregnant women with their infants nationally to monitor long-term effects. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in close collaboration with state, local, and territorial health departments, began a 5-year initiative to establish population-based mother–baby linked longitudinal surveillance, the Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET). The objective of this report is to describe an expanded surveillance approach that leverages and modernizes existing surveillance systems to address the impact of emerging health threats during pregnancy on pregnant women and their infants.
AUTHOR(S) Alexandra Rhodes; Sara Kheireddine; Andrea D. Smith
AUTHOR(S) Kate R. Woodworth; Emily O’Malley Olsen; Varsha Neelam (et al.)
Pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection are at increased risk for severe illness compared with nonpregnant women. Adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth and pregnancy loss have been reported. Among 3,912 infants with known gestational age born to women with SARS-CoV-2 infection, 12.9% were preterm (<37 weeks), higher than a national estimate of 10.2%. Among 610 (21.3%) infants with testing results, 2.6% had positive SARS-CoV-2 results, primarily those born to women with infection at delivery. These findings can inform clinical practice, public health practice, and policy. It is important that providers counsel pregnant women on measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.
AUTHOR(S) Antoine Martenot; Imad Labbassi; Amélie Delfils-Stern (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Jasper V. Been; Lizbeth Burgos Ochoa; Loes C. M. Bertens (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Reza Jafari Nodoushan; Hadi Alimoradi; Mahsa Nazari
AUTHOR(S) Laura D. Zambrano; Sascha Ellington; Penelope Strid (et al.)
Limited information suggests that pregnant women with COVID-19 might be at increased risk for severe illness compared with non-pregnant women. In an analysis of approximately 400,000 women aged 15–44 years with symptomatic COVID-19, intensive care unit admission, invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and death were more likely in pregnant women than in non-pregnant women. Pregnant women should be counseled about the risk for severe COVID-19–associated illness including death; measures to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 should be emphasized for pregnant women and their families. These findings can inform clinical practice, risk communication, and medical countermeasure allocation.
AUTHOR(S) Jeong Yee; Woorim Kim; Ji Min Han Han (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Yeşim Aksoy Derya; Sümeyye Altiparmak; Emine Akça (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) A. Vazquez-Vazquez ; S. Dib; J. C. Wells (et al.)
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COVID-19 & Children: Rapid Research Response