© 2020 Columbia University
Frontline Report
COVID-19
& Women’s
Health
A compendium of experiences and lessons learned during the first two months of the pandemic in New York City. This resource will help to keep providers, staff, and patients safe with valuable insights to better tackle surges of COVID-19 as they arise.
Learning as we went, we relied on one another, coming together as never before. Here, we share the strategies, reflections, and data that helped to keep our patients and our team safe…
Mary E. D'Alton, MD
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“Even though the ubiquitous use of masks has made us somewhat of a faceless society, it has redefined us in ways that go beyond the surface.”
Arnold P. Advincula, MD
Chief of the Division of Gynecologic Specialty Surgery and Richard U. Levine Professor of Women’s Health at NYP/CUIMC
Reflections featured throughout the report provide some unique perspectives
“I begin learning about COVID-19 before it is even officially on our radar, as I manage my healthy, 43-year-old brother with an illness that behaves like nothing I had ever seen.”
Dena Goffman, MD
Peak Pandemic Experiences in Numbers
1300%
Increase in telehealth visists between week 1 and week 2
1in7
of patients presenting for delivery were asymptomatic COVID-19+
8
Peak number of COVID-19+ deliveries in one day
180
Number of people on 4:30 PM departmental calls on average
Emerging Research
Rapid Development and Implementation of a COVID-19 Telehealth Clinic for Obstetric Patients
NEJM Catalyst
Associations Between Built Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, and SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Pregnant Women in New York City
JAMA
Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery
The New England Journal of Medicine
