Looking back in history during SARS and H1N1 pandemic, pregnant women were more vulnerable to the illness compared to the general public, with more critical symptoms and higher fatality rates. With the new virus, COVID-19 is on the rise, many start to question whether will it be the same as before. We do not know for sure yet, but we can study from the cases.

According to a new study conducted by the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, it shows that pregnant women do not seem to be any more vulnerable to the severeness of the COVID-19 virus, as compared to the general population and they don't seem to pass the virus onto their babies.

The small study was published on Monday. It studied data collected from 43 pregnant women in New York, who were tested positive for COVID-19, for over 2 weeks period, between March 13 and 27.

37 of the women experienced a mild form of COVID-19, 4 developed a severe form of the disease, while 2 is in critical stage. By converting this into percentage and compare to the general public's data, the results were similar. About 80% with mild symptoms, 15% develop severe cases and the remaining 5% in critical cases.

This is certainly good news for us.

Another good news is, none of the babies seemed to be infected, based on the study. The babies were tested on the first day of they were born, and the results came back negative.

These are certainly cheerful news to those pregnant women and father-to-be.

News source from CNN.