Call for pregnant women to be included in Covid-19 treatment trials

Call for pregnant women to be included in Covid-19 treatment trials

Mothers-to-be have been excluded from more than three-quarters of Covid-19 treatment trials. Picture: Pexels

Pregnant women should be given the right to make their own informed decision to participate in clinical studies on Covid-19 treatments, experts have said.

In an opinion piece published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, the scientists said that mothers-to-be have been excluded from more than three-quarters of Covid-19 treatment trials.

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