Yes, About All of That ...

 Oh, selective reporting! What would we do without you?!:

A study published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal analyzed over 2.4 million births in Ontario and found that there was changes in the rates of such adverse birthing events during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Now: 

Compared with no infection, we found that SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy was associated with preeclampsia (OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.73; I² = 31%; based on 13 studies) (Figure 2A), preterm birth (OR 1.82, 95% CI 1.38 to 2.39; I² = 64%; 18 studies) (Figure 3A), stillbirth (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.14 to 3.90; I² = 24%; 6 studies) (Figure 4), ICU admission (OR 4.78, 95% CI 2.03 to 11.25; I² = 76%; 5 studies), lower birth weight (grams; mean difference −68.96, 95% CI −130.22 to −7.69; I² = 29%; 13 studies) and NICU admission (OR 3.69, 95% CI 1.39 to 9.82; I² = 94%; 10 studies) (Appendix 4, available at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.202604/tab-related-content). COVID-19 was not associated with gestational diabetes, cesarean delivery, postpartum hemorrhage or neonatal death compared with no COVID-19 ...

(Sidebar: for the record, only women, ie, those who have XX chromosomes, give birth to babies. In case anyone was confused.)

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To provide perspective, we are reporting on 430 of the 1584 cumulative, pregnant, positive cases that were reported in Canada as of November 23rd, 2020 (Figure 1). Of the 1584 cases, 172 resided in BC, 345 in AB, and 387 in ON (Figure 1). Figure 2 illustrates the cumulative progression of pregnant positive cases among 6 Canadian provinces. Notably, Alberta’s cases increased from less than 200 on September 7th to over 300 by September 21st, 2020. 

 Among pregnant positive cases, 41.4% were between the ages of 30 and 35 (Table 1). Most cases were diagnosed between 28 and 37 weeks gestation (34.9%), with infection most often acquired via the community-at-large (69.7%). The most common underlying conditions in the subset were obesity and diabetes (10.7% and 5.2%, respectively) and the most common symptoms were cough (47.3%), fever (28.3%), anorexia (26.2%), and sore throat (25.6%) (Figure 3). The rate of hospitalization was 11% and rate of ICU admission was 2.3%. Notably, compared to their non-pregnant counterparts, pregnant women were at increased risk of being hospitalized (RR = 6.57, 95% CI: 4.82 to 8.95) and admitted to the ICU (RR=8.49, 95% CI: 4.13 to 17.46) (Table 3).

 

(Sidebar: is this report suggesting that age and pre-existing conditions might exacerbate the virus that China spread around the world and that pregnant women are among the cohort who should have been especially protected and monitored for illness, as others have been saying? Interesting.)

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According to the most recent stats released by the CDC this past Friday, their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) now has recorded twice as many deaths following the non-FDA approved experimental COVID-19 shots during the past 8 months, than deaths recorded following ALL FDA approved vaccines for the past 30 years. ...

There are also 1,175 premature deaths of unborn children following COVID-19 injections of pregnant women.