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- Title
COVID‐19 and pregnancy: An opportunity to correct an historic gender bias.
- Authors
Comas, Carmina; Carreras, Elena
- Abstract
Current literature and clinical guidelines do not include pregnant women as an a priori risk group for COVID‐19. However, a gender vision of health begs the question: Why are pregnant women not considered a risk group for COVID‐19? The answer is clear: historically, most community scientific studies have not considered female gender, or pregnancy as a state, to be a focus of special interest or effort. Unfortunately, this bias seems to be maintained in the COVID‐19 epidemic: most current guidelines for diagnosing SARS‐CoV‐2 infection during pregnancy apply the same standard criteria as for the general population.
- Subjects
COVID-19; SEX discrimination; GENDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT women
- Publication
Journal of Medical Virology, 2021, Vol 93, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0146-6615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jmv.26350