COVID-19 not linked to poor outcomes in pregnant women, study findsPregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19 had similar clinical illness and outcomes as nonpregnant women of reproductive age and did not pass the virus to their newborns, according to a retrospective study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.The researchers studied the electronic medical records of 28 infected pregnant women and 54 nonpregnant peers hospitalized in the Central Hospital of Wuhan, China, from Jan 15 to Mar 15.They found no link between pregnancy and illness severity (odds ratio [OR], 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.08 to 5.15; P = 0.76), virus clearance time (OR, 1.16; 95% CI, 0.65 to 2.01; P = 0.62), or length of