http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/clear-link-emerges-between-covid-19-and-pregnancy-complications > Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. > Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 hits pregnant women harder than the general population. Now, one of the first large studies with a proper control group has firmed up earlier evidence for how the virus can alter the course of pregnancy and harm mothers and their newborns.