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Should a pregnant woman contract CoVid, she is less likely to show initial symptoms but more than twice as likely to end up in the ICU on a ventilator and nearly twice as likely to die. British investigators performed a meta-analysis of 73 studies covering 67, 271 pregnant women.
Pregnancy reduces chance of initial fevers, shortness of breath, and muscle aches by an average of 60%. Even so, it increases odds of ICU admission by 2.1 times, the need for a ventilator by 2.6, times, risk of profound respiratory failure doubles, and death from any cause rises 1.8 fold. Mothers with CoVid are 1.5 times as likely to have a pre-term birth and their babies are nearly 5 times more likely to require a NICU stay.
Unvaccinated pregnant women who have not experienced a previous CoVid infection should be monitored extremely carefully and managed aggressively.
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3320
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