COVID-19 and threats to pregnancy and the fetus

Raczkiewicz Przemysław, Śmiech Natalia, Korzec Tomasz, Kania Konrad, Kaczerska Marlena. COVID-19 and threats to pregnancy and the fetus. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(4):11-17. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.04.001 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.04.001 https://zenodo.org/record/4661666 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 21.03.2021. Revised: 26.03.2021. Accepted: 28.03.2021. COVID-19 and threats to pregnancy and the fetus Przemysław Raczkiewicz, Natalia Śmiech, Tomasz Korzec, Konrad Kania, Marlena Kaczerska Medical University of Lublin, Poland Abstract 11 March 2020 WHO assessmented that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 RNA virus is highly contagious and is transmitted by droplets. It appears that pregnant women may be at a higher risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2, which increases the risk to pregnancy and fetal defects. The course of the disease in this group of patients is more severe due to the changes in the immune and respiratory systems. Despite the constantly growing number of publications on the course of COVID-19 infection, the available data is insufficient. Key words: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; pregnancy; childbirth; fetus