Pregnancy During the Pandemic

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University

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Project Citation: 

Schwandt, Hannes. Pregnancy During the Pandemic . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-10-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E123804V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Worries about the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant mothers and their offspring are widespread. As a comparison, the Spanish Flu pandemic had devastating health impacts on pregnant mothers and in-utero exposure to influenza is known to have negative short- and long-term consequences for children. Using data from New York City in 2020 and Philadelphia in 1918, Schwandt compares COVID-19 mortality rates versus Spanish Flu mortality rates by age and gender. The data show that COVID-19 mortality rates have been much higher for individuals over 60 compared to the Spanish Flu, which had much higher mortality rates for people between the ages of 20-40. 

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms COVID-19; Spanish Flu; pregnancy ; in-utero exposure
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Philadelphia, PA, New York City, NY
Universe:  View help for Universe Pregnant women in the United States during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; Pregnant women in the United States during the Spanish Influenza.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Data on COVID-19 death counts for New York City from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) combined with population estimates for 2017 from New York State Department of Health (2017). Data on Spanish Influenza from Rogers (1920). 

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