As summer heats up and coronavirus cases continue to surge, pregnant women of color in particular face the greatest health risks.
Some of the studies found a woman’s access to air conditioning dampened these health risks. Moreover, they repeatedly found women of color, especially Black women, were more at risk of negative health outcomes — from being hospitalized during pregnancy to preterm delivery to stillbirths.
Cooling centers, which are public places that blast air conditioning, are the “mainstay” of many cities’ emergency plans for extreme heat, according to Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University. “Even if coronavirus weren’t around, the cooling centers have real challenges” in attracting people, he said.
“Pregnant women as an at-risk group to climate change are largely ignored,” Skye Wheeler, an emergencies researcher for the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, told BuzzFeed News. If you look at the heat emergency plans for several major US cities including Boston and New York, you’ll see a lot of different groups mentioned, she explained, but “pregnant people aren’t.”
In conversations with midwives, lactation consultants, and doulas , Monteblanco learned there was a big knowledge gap on the issue. “They were all familiar with some heat illness symptoms and that they could communicate protective measures if there was a heat event that was hurting their community, but unfortunately many were unfamiliar with pregnant people and fetuses as being uniquely vulnerable,” Monteblanco said.
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