Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 appear to be at greater risk of experiencing common pregnancy complications compared to women who are uninfected, according to a new study. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study included data from more than 13,000 pregnant women from 17 medical centers across the nation. Of those participants, nearly 2,400 tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Women infected with COVID-19, and who also experienced moderate to severe symptoms, were more likely to need a C-section (45.4 versus 32.4 percent), deliver preterm (26.9 versus 14.1 percent), die around the time of birth, or experience postpartum hemorrhage (also called PPH), the study found. The women were also more likely to experience severe illness from infection besides COVID-19, develop high blood pressure, lose the pregnancy, or have the infant die as a newborn (3.5 versus 1.8 percent). The researched data only included unvaccinated participants who delivered …