No Change in Preterm Birth or Stillbirth Trends During COVID-19 Pandemic

Despite early reports suggesting a decline in preterm births during the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis published by the JAMA on December 7, 2020, by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has found no change in preterm births or stillbirths at Philadelphia hospitals in the first 4-months of the 2020 pandemic.