Clinical study shows pregnant women at lower risk of COVID19 than expected

June 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/--- A new study shows that the infection rate of COVID-19 is much lower in asymptomatic pregnant women than previously reported3 percent of pregnant women who gave birth at Yale University's New Haven Health tested positive for COVID-19 infection during AprilIn contrast, a new State hospital reported a 13.5 percent rate in a study of asymptomatic pregnant women(photo source:the new study included 770 hospitalized patients who had not been previously diagnosed with coronavirus infectionOf these, 30 tested positive for COVID-19Of those who tested positive, 22 were asymptomatic - meaning the positive rate was 2.9 per cent for asymptomatic womenfindings indicate that there were no patients with symptoms or further examination due to COVID-19 negative, nor did obstetric ians stop working due to COVID-19 disease or known or possible contact with the patientresearchers said that while the number of asymptomatic women without symptoms increased tenfold during the trial, the number of asymptomatic women halved, author Dr Catherine Campbell, said: "Our report provides information about infection rates outside high-prevalence areasGiven our data, we believe that a large number of asymptomatic positive test patients may not actually be infectedThis requires more research, but it is of great importance to those who tested positive(Bio Valley Bioon.com)Source:COVID-19 may be lower than than thought for the