'For infertile people, it’s keep your head down and be good soldiers.”
IVF On Hold
By the following week, most fertility clinics across the U.S. had followed suit, cancelling all new treatment cycles, in accordance withreleased by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on March 17. The organization advised its more than 8,000 members to suspend all new treatment cycles of I.V.F., IUI, and egg freezing.
“The guidelines were purposely timestamped to alleviate some of the stress that comes with uncertainty. The idea is that we’ll meet regularly to reassess the situation,” says Jennifer Kawwass, M.D., medical director at Emory University Reproductive Center and a member of ASRM’s COVID-19 task force. “The intent is not for this to last for very long, if we can help it. The idea is to slow the curve, not to halt all fertility treatments until there is no more coronavirus in the U.S.
“I keep hearing that it’s not life or death, but for us it kind of is—it’s the difference between a living child or not,” she says. “It feels like another thing that’s being taken away. At 43, the egg curve for having anything viable is a steep cliff. A month or two can make a huge difference. There are some clinics that, with my numbers, wouldn’t treat me.”
She said, ‘Are all women being told not to get pregnant?’ And I said ‘No.’ And she said, ‘Well, then, why me?’
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