CDC: Pregnant girls with COVID had been older, whiter, extra educated as illness developed

Pregnant girls with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infections had been more likely to be older, whiter and extra educated because the pandemic unfolded, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

The CDC analyzed federal knowledge linked to beginning certificates issued in 14 states and the District of Columbia from July 2020 to June 2022. According to the report, the share of these pregnant ages 30 and older with COVID elevated from 38.4% within the third quarter of 2020 to 48.9% within the second quarter of final 12 months.

Over the identical interval, the share of contaminated pregnant girls with not less than a bachelor’s diploma jumped from 14.2% to 35.4%. The share of contaminated mothers paying for youngster supply with non-public insurance coverage moderately than Medicaid elevated from 30.7% to 58.2%.

White mothers changed Hispanic mothers as the vast majority of these contaminated, surging from 25.1% of them to 58.2% throughout the research interval.

The demographic modifications appeared throughout a interval when new COVID strains emerged and infections grew extra widespread.

“Different variants and changing prevalence of COVID may have contributed to the trends shown,” CDC statistician Michelle Osterman, a co-author of the report, instructed The Washington Times. “However, this dataset does not include other related factors that may have contributed to these trends.”

The CDC report is critical as a result of it reveals that girls with COVID throughout being pregnant had been likelier to be White than girls with out COVID throughout being pregnant for a lot of the pandemic, she added.