While the risk of severe COVID in pregnant women is relatively low, pregnant women with severe COVID experience worse outcomes. Some of our perinatal patients can’t wait to get a COVID-19 vaccine, some of our [...]
Over a year ago, we wrote our first post on COVID-19, and it is hard to believe that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic. Since that time, we have [...]
It hasn’t even been a week since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 infection. Yesterday, Americans started receiving [...]
As we enter into the Fall of 2020, it is clear that we will be dealing with COVID-19 into the next year. We have learned so much about the novel coronavirus over the last six [...]
Dr. Lee S. Cohen, Director of the Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women's Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, recently shared his insights on mitigating psychiatric relapse during pregnancy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with Ob.Gyn News on [...]
In March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Massachusetts, centers providing infertility services were forced to hit the pause button, leaving many couples in the United States in the lurch. On March 17, the American Society [...]
In an effort to decrease the spread of COVID-19, public health officials have recommended that we minimize close physical contact with others and furthermore require those with either suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection to [...]
When we first started to write about COVID-19 in March, it seemed like the pandemic would be a time-limited event. That was before everything shut down. Now it is fairly clear that many parts [...]
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, we have limited information regarding COVID-19 during pregnancy; however, in the absence of adequate information, we consider pregnant women to be an at-risk population for [...]
It is difficult to describe how much things have changed over the past week as we responded to the outbreak of coronavirus in the United States. Even in the best of times, women who [...]
