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. 2022 Feb:13:100313.
doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100313. Epub 2022 Jan 26.

Severe COVID-19 in pregnancy is almost exclusively limited to unvaccinated women - time for policies to change

Hilde Engjom  1 , Thomas van den Akker  2   3 , Anna Aabakke  4   5 , Outi Ayras  6 , Kitty Bloemenkamp  7 , Serena Donati  8 , Danilo Cereda  9 , Evelien Overtoom  7 , Marian Knight  10
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Severe COVID-19 in pregnancy is almost exclusively limited to unvaccinated women - time for policies to change

Hilde Engjom et al. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2022 Feb.
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Conflict of interest statement

Hilde Engjom reports funding from the Nordic federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NFOG) research fund and cost refund for travel costs as invited key note speaker at the Norwegian Perinatal Society annual meeting Nov 2021; Marian Knight reports funding from the National Institute or Health Research, the Medical Research Council and Wellbeing of Women; Thomas van den Akker reports funding from the Medical Research Council and the Laerdal Foundation; Anna Aabakke reports funding from The Region of Southern Denmark and Region Zealand's shared fund for joint health research projects and is head of the educational committee of the Danish Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (DSOG); Outi Ayras reports funding from the Finnish Medical Foundation and the Nordic Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Kitty Bloemenkamp reports frunding from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ‘COVID-19 infectiOn aNd medicineS In pregnancy’ for the INOSS network; Serena Donati reports funding from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Health Institute). Danilo Cereda and Evelien Overtoom have no interests to declare.

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