Study: 63% of children born to mothers who had Covid were born prematurely.
Research conducted by the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo followed mothers who had Covid-19 during childbirth or up to 14 days before delivery.
Metropolises - The prematurity rate in newborns of mothers who had Covid-19 at the end of their pregnancy reached 63%, according to a study conducted at the Department of Pediatrics of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of USP.
According to the research, prematurity more than doubled at the Hospital das Clínicas compared to 2019, a year in which approximately 30% of babies were born prematurely.
The study was conducted between March 2020 and March 2021 and involved 71 newborns whose mothers were infected with Covid during childbirth or up to 14 days before birth. There were 45 premature births (63% of births).
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