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ABSTRACT Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new pathology, declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization, which can have negative consequences for pregnant women and their newborns The aim of this study was to explore the available knowledge on the consequences of developing COVI-19 in pregnant women and their neonates Methods: Scoping Review, in which the search for articles was conducted using DeCS (“pregnancy”, “coronavirus”, “health”) and MeSH (“pregnan*”, “pregnant women”, “coronavirus”), linking the terms with the Boolean AND operator Databases used were Web of Science, Scopus, BVS, Scielo and CUIDEN In addition, the PRISMA methodology was applied Results: Ten studies were identified that assessed maternal and neonatal health after maternal COVID-19 infection Pregnant women seem to had no serious symptoms Neonates appeared to be affected to a greater extent A death was reported in a premature newborn whose mother had COVID-19 pneumonia There did not appear to be vertical transmission from mother to child Nevertheless, this information was not conclusive Conclusions: COVID-19 appears to be more benign with pregnant women than with their neonates
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