THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON GESTATIONAL CARRIERS
The COVID-19 pandemic required ART practice centers to reevaluate and adapt their practice processes, having a particularly negative effect on the gestational carrier process. This article provides a comprehensive review of the changes made at the practice level to accommodate the required precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples utilizing a gestational carrier, and gestational carriers themselves. Topics include the added psychological stress unto gestational carriers from the pandemic, changes to the gestational carrier process, patient safety during pregnancy and the pandemic, vaccination counseling, and the new normal in the REI practice.