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Continue to ChatApril 14th 2020 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316 Aim Report the prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 in women admitted for delivery in New York City Summary · The obstetrical population have multiple interactions with the health care system and eventually most are admitted to the hospital for delivery. · Universal testing with nasopharyngeal swabs and a quantitative polymerase-chain-reaction test to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in women who were admitted for delivery were performed. · 215 pregnant women delivered infants at the New York–Presbyterian Allen Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Four women (1.9%) had fever or other symptoms of Covid-19 on admission, and all 4 women tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (Fig. 1). · Nasopharyngeal swabs were obtained from 210 of the 211 women (99.5%) who did not have symptoms of Covid-19; of these women, 29 (13.7%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. · 87.9% of SARS-Cov-2 positive patients had no symptoms of Covid-19 at presentation. · Of the 29 women who had been asymptomatic but who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 on admission, fever developed in 3 (10%) before postpartum discharge (median length of stay, 2 days). · The use of universal SARS-CoV-2 testing in all pregnant patients presenting for delivery revealed that at this point in the pandemic in New York City, most of the patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 at delivery were asymptomatic, and more than one of eight asymptomatic patients who were admitted to the labor and delivery unit were positive for SARS-CoV-2. · The true prevalence of infection may be underreported because of false negative results of tests to detect https://www.heelkunde.nl/nieuws/nieuwsbericht?newsitemid=33423363