COVID-19 starkly increases pregnancy complications, including stillbirths, among unvaccinated

[Nevilledog]

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Dr. Tom Frieden
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Jan 18, 2022
Two new studies found that unvaccinated pregnant women who got Covid were much more likely to experience complications, including hospitalization, stillbirth, or infant death in the first month of life, compared with the general pregnant population.

Dr. Tom Frieden
@DrTomFrieden
42% of pregnant people in the US are fully vaccinated. Vaccines are extremely safe and remarkably effective, including for pregnant people. Protect yourself and your baby by getting vaccinated.

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COVID-19 starkly increases pregnancy complications, including stillbirths, among the unvaccinated,...
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1:05 PM · Jan 18, 2022

https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-starkly-increases-pregnancy-complications-including-stillbirths-among

Two studies released yesterday delivered dire news about the dangers of COVID-19 to unvaccinated pregnant women and their babies. Perhaps the most disturbing data came from a first-of-its-kind analysis that tracked the tens of thousands of pregnancies in Scotland since vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 became available. It found that unvaccinated, coronavirus-infected women were far more likely than the general pregnant population to have a stillborn infant or one that dies in the first month of life. Among the infected women in the study, every one of the perinatal deaths occurred in the pregnancy of someone who was unvaccinated.

The unvaccinated mothers themselves were also more endangered: Nearly every pregnant person with a SARS-CoV-2 infection who required critical care was unvaccinated. Unvaccinated women also had a far higher rate of hospitalization than their vaccinated counterparts in the study of nearly 88,000 pregnant women.

Yet the study found that in October 2021, months after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, fewer than one-third of pregnant Scots delivering babies had been fully vaccinated. By contrast, more than 77% of adult women of childbearing age in the general Scottish population were, highlighting a disturbing vaccine hesitancy among the pregnant that is mirrored in many places around the world. “This should shake us up and really be a call to action,” says Yalda Afshar, a high-risk obstetrician at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who was not involved with the study. “Vaccination is the clear action item to improve health for pregnant people and their babies.”

Using data from an ongoing population study called COVID-19 In Pregnancy in Scotland, researchers at the University of Edinburgh and colleagues elsewhere tracked pregnant women in Scotland between December 2020, when COVID-19 vaccines first became available, and October 2021. The scientists report in Nature Medicine that although the risk of poor outcomes was generally elevated for unvaccinated pregnant women who got COVID-19 at any point in their babies’ gestation, it was starkly worse if that happened late in pregnancy.

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[mucifer]

1. The study is Dec 2020 to October 2021 . So probably not much Omicron in the study

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Very important research. Thanks Nevilledog. ❤ nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. I posted about my partner's coworker's unvaccinated family.

The coworker is fine. She was vaccinated against her will as she works in the medical field. She only had a mild case. As did her vaccinated adult children an husband.

The unvaccinated niece had to deliver cesarean at 8 months. She’s home but the baby is still in the hospital. Last I heard they were concerned with oxygen. Her unvaccinated husband has permanent lung damage.

Services for unvaccinated mom/grandma are tomorrow.


They are all pro vaccine now. Well, except for grandma.

[tanyev]

4. Bunch of "pro-life" anti-vaxxers currently working on new pretzel logic to refute.