COVID-19 in pregnant women
Manuel B Schmid
Jehudith Fontijn
Nicole Ochsenbein-Kölble
Christoph Berger
Dirk Bassler
Published:March 17, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30175-4
With interest, we read the recommendation on the management of pregnant women with suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by Guillaume Favre and colleagues.1 Some of the recommendations made in the flowsheet of their Correspondence have long-term consequences (eg, termination of pregnancy, no breastfeeding) of an unforeseeable extent, are harmful when applied to the general population (eg, early cord clamping in extremely preterm infants, no breastfeeding, separation of the mother from the newborn), are not proven to reduce the risk of transmission in other viral illnesses (eg, early cleaning of the newborn), and are contradictory to the current recommendations by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19; eg, testing of asymptomatic people, no breastfeeding).