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COVID19 impact on women on both sides of the frontline: The American College of Cardiology Women in Cardiology Section’s International Working Group perspective

Parapid Biljana (Clinical Centre of Serbia, Division of Cardiology, Belgrade, Serbia + University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia), biljana_parapid@yahoo.com
Alasnag Manal (King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Hayes Sharonne N. (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America)
Samargandy Sondos (Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Banerjee Shrilla (Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust, Department of Cardiology, Surrey, United Kingdom)
Alasnag Mirvat (King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Cardiac Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Singh Toniya (Saint Louis Heart and Vascular, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America)
ACC WIC Leadership Council

At the beginning of the SARS Co V2 (COVID-19) pandemic, women worldwide represented the majority of health care workers. As part of the fight against the pandemic, women health care workers became a part of the significant frontline response. This led to unique challenges that affected women physicians as well as the women patients they were taking care of. The American College of Cardiology Women in Cardiology International Working Group set up a webinar to discuss the challenges being faced by women physicians and women patients in various parts of the world and look towards finding possible solutions for these issues in a webinar themed “WIC Global Perspectives: COVID-19.”

Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, sex differences, pregnancy, women in cardiology, discrimination