While anecdotal and still low, doctors have started to report higher than expected fetal deaths in women with COVID-19.
The mechanism behind any apparent link between COVID-19 in pregnant women and fetal death remains unclear. But it is not unusual for infections, such as influenza or syphilis, to affect pregnancies.
Incerpi has not seen increases in stillbirths similar to those in Mississippi and Alabama, but has seen a rise in preterm birth in mothers too sick to carry the baby full-term.There are several aspects of COVID-19 in particular that could explain a possible link between the infection in mothers and poor outcomes in babies.
Dr. Cindy Celnik, chief medical officer of the Woman's Hospital of Texas, in Houston, has also seen how COVID-19 can affect a woman's air supply. What's more, the overwhelming inflammation that can occur with severe COVID-19 causes the body to produce nitric oxide, and that, in turn, dilates blood vessels, leading to dangerously low blood pressure in some patients.
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