Severe COVID-19 in pregnancy is almost exclusively limited to unvaccinated women – time for policies to change

• Hilde Engjom,
• Thomas van den Akker,
• Anna Aabakke,
• Outi Ayras,
• Kitty Bloemenkamp,
• Serena Donati,
• Danilo Cereda,
• Evelien Overtoom,
• Marian Knight

Affiliations

Hilde Engjom

Dept of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway

Thomas van den Akker

Department of obstetrics and gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Anna Aabakke

Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hillerød Hospital, Nordsjaellands Hospital, Denmark; Dept obstetrics and Gynecology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Holbæk, Denmark

Outi Ayras

Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Kitty Bloemenkamp

Department of Obstetrics, WKZ Birth Centre, Division Woman and Baby, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Serena Donati

National Centre for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Italian National Institute of Health, Rome Italy

Danilo Cereda

Regione Lombardia DG – Welfare, Milano, Italy

Evelien Overtoom

Department of Obstetrics, WKZ Birth Centre, Division Woman and Baby, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Marian Knight

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Correspondence to: Marian Knight, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK, Tel: +44-1865-289727.