I hope everyone is keeping safe. I thought I would disseminate this knowledge from the CDC regarding this topic as many of my patients with prior miscarriages have asked me: ‘Should I try to get pregnant during this time of COVID-19 pandemic?’.

The short answer is that we do not have any information on whether COVID 19 infection will adversely affect women in early pregnancy such as causing miscarriage or birth defects. The CDC states that ‘pregnancy loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth, has been observed in cases of infection with other related coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)] during pregnancy. High fevers during the first trimester of pregnancy can increase the risk of certain birth defects’.

I wish I had the answers, however, this time I don’t.

Keep safe and we will get through this together.