NIH to study long-term effects of COVID-19 in pregnancy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will support a four-year follow-up study on the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. The study will also follow their offspring for any potential long-term effects. The effort is part of NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, which aims to understand why some individuals who have had COVID-19 don’t fully recover or develop symptoms after recovery. Researchers hope the study findings will inform efforts to reduce the risk of long COVID after pregnancy and to treat its symptoms. (NIH news release, 11/2/21)