Protocol for a sequential, prospective meta-analysis to describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the pregnancy and postpartum periods

• Emily R. Smith ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: EmilySmith@gwu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5715-9459

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• Erin Oakley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Siran He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Rebecca Zavala,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Kacey Ferguson,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Lior Miller,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Gargi Wable Grandner,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Yalda Afshar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Homa Ahmadzia,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Grace Aldrovandi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Victor Akelo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Beth A. Tippett Barr,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Elisa Bevilacqua,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women and Child Health, Women Health Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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• Justin S. Brandt,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3194-1087

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• Natalie Broutet,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Irene Fernández Buhigas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Universitario de Torrejón, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, School of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-5273

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• Jorge Carrillo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departmento de Obstetricia y Ginecologia, Clinica Alemana de Santiago, Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1782-7069

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• Rebecca Clifton,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Jeanne Conry,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation OBGYN, The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, London, United Kingdom

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• Erich Cosmi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Woman’s and Child’s Health, Obstetrics and Gynecologic Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Camille Delgado-López,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies, Puerto Rico Department of Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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• Hema Divakar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asian Research and Training Institute for Skill Transfer (ARTIST), Bengaluru, India

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• Amanda J. Driscoll,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Guillaume Favre,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Materno-fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department “Femme-Mère-Enfant”, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Valerie Flaherman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Christopher Gale,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neonatal Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Maria M. Gil,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Universitario de Torrejón, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, School of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9993-5249

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• Christine Godwin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Global Health Research, FHI 360, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Sami Gottlieb,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Olivia Hernandez Bellolio,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gynecology and Obstetrics, Felix Bulnes Hospital and RedSalud Clinic, Santiago, Chile

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• Edna Kara,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Sammy Khagayi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute-Center for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Caron Rahn Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Marian Knight,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Karen Kotloff,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Metabolism, Digestion, and Reproduction, Imperial College London, of London, United Kingdom

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• Antonio Lanzone,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Women and Child Health, Women Health Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Kirsty Le Doare,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Research Council /Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St. George’s University of London, of London, United Kingdom

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• Christoph Lees,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Digestion, and Reproduction, Imperial College London, of London, United Kingdom

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• Ethan Litman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-3860

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• Erica M. Lokken,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Valentina Laurita Longo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Laura A. Magee,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Women and Children’s Health, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Raigam Jafet Martinez-Portilla,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Research Division, National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico, ABC Medical Center, Fetal Surgery Clinic, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Elizabeth McClure,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Statistics and Epidemiology, RTI International, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Torri D. Metz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

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• Deborah Money,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Edward Mullins,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Digestion, and Reproduction, Imperial College London, of London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-6358

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• Jean B. Nachega,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Alice Panchaud,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Service of Pharmacy, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Rebecca Playle,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Liona C. Poon,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

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• Daniel Raiten,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Lesley Regan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Federation International Federation Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Gordon Rukundo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PeriCovid (PREPARE)–Uganda Team, Makerere University–Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jose Sanin-Blair,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal Fetal Unit, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, RECOGEST Study, Medellín, Colombia

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• Marleen Temmerman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Anna Thorson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8703-6561

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• Soe Thwin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jorge E. Tolosa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Maternal Fetal Unit, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, RECOGEST Study, Medellín, Colombia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States of America, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Bethlehem, PA, United States of America

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• Julia Townson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Miguel Valencia-Prado,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Children with Special Medical Needs Division, Puerto Rico Department of Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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• Silvia Visentin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Woman’s and Child’s Health, Obstetrics and Gynecologic Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Peter von Dadelszen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Global Health Institute, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Kristina Adams Waldorf,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Clare Whitehead,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Melbourne, Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

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• Huixia Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Kristian Thorlund,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• James M. Tielsch

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America

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