Preterm Delivery Rates During Coronavirus Lockdown

By Lynnepi

A journal club I attend recently reviewed two articles published in Obstetrics & Gynecology (the “Green journal”) that reported rates of preterm delivery during “lockdowns” imposed last year due to the coronavirus epidemic.  One of the articles was from Australia and observed a decrease in preterm births. The paper (https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2021/03000/Prematurity_Rates_During_the_Coronavirus_Disease.3.aspx) examined monthly preterm delivery rates…