Racial/ethnic disparities in very preterm, preterm birth before, during COVID-19 pandemic


What The Study Did:

Racial and ethnic disparities in very preterm birth and preterm birth among 8,026 women were similar during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City compared with the same period the year prior in this observational study.


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Teresa Janevic, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, is the corresponding author.


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