Covid-19 damaged the placenta in a number of pre-term births in the Netherlands during the first and second wave of coronavirus infections, researchers at Erasmus MC and LUMC found. Worryingly, pregnant women don't notice that their placenta is affected, and it is impossible to detect on the ultrasound, while it could put the unborn child at serious risk. "It is …
The number of premature births in the Netherlands decreased by between 15 and 23 percent since measures against the coronavirus started being implemented on March 9, according to a large study by Erasmus MC. Erasmus MC studied the data of 1.5 million babies born between October 2010 and July 2020, using anonymous data provided by public health institute RIVM from …
