Covid-19 Creates Long, Anxious Waits for Fertility Treatments

"As fertility clinics gradually reopen, patients and doctors must weigh the risks of seeking pregnancy during a pandemic—or waiting too long to try.
GINA WAS DRAPED in a drab hospital gown, sitting on the papered exam bench at her doctor’s office when she saw the news on her phone: San Francisco had issued a shelter-in-place order. It was March 16, just three days after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Gina was waiting for an embryo transfer, a procedure in which her egg, which had previously been removed and fertilized with her husband’s sperm, would be returned to her body..." Lire la suite