"God, No, Not Another Case." COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn't Have to Happen.

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Doctors discovered that some stillbirths resulted from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta, a condition called SARS-CoV-2 placentitis.

Cases were found even in people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.

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“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
6:40 AM · Oct 15, 2022

https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy


This story contains descriptions of stillbirths.


Late one afternoon last October, Dr. Shelley Odronic sat in her office and, just as she had thousands of times before, slid a rectangular glass slide onto her microscope.

A pathologist who works in rural Ohio, Odronic leaned forward to examine tissue from the placenta of a woman who had recently given birth. She increased the magnification on the microscope. Never had she seen so many tiny, congealed reservoirs of blood or such severe inflammation of the tissue, a sign the placenta had been fighting an infection.

“Right away, I knew it wasn’t compatible with life,” Odronic said.

She asked her secretary to print out the patient’s chart. In dark letters were the words “fetal demise.” A stillbirth, the death of a fetus at 20 weeks or more of pregnancy. But that didn’t solve the mystery. Odronic had examined many placentas from pregnancies that ended in stillbirth. None looked like this — withered and scarred.

Odronic kept reading. No chronic medical conditions. Good prenatal care. Then, buried in the middle of the report, she spotted something. Seven days before the stillbirth, the mother had tested positive for COVID-19. Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta. In the world of placenta pathology, a new affliction is unusual, especially one so dramatic in presentation and so devastating in effect.

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[gratuitous]

1. Damn

I wonder what the overlap is between anti-vaxxers and anti-choice folks? All these excess deaths.

[Retrograde]

2. How soon will the mandatory birthers

require that all women of child-bearing age get vaccinated against Covid? No, I'm not holding my breath, either.

[not fooled]

5. "It's God's Will"

If it's something they don't want to do, e.g. get vaccinated against COVID, that's how they will continue to "rationalize" these needless deaths.

[Rebl2]

3. Never heard

of this before.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Shouldn't all those COVID stillbirths be investigated by police

Or at least investigated by a group of holier than thou priests, pastors and Evangelicals to determine if all those women got COVID on purpose? Did the women want to be rid of those fetuses?

Isn't that what our KKKleptrocracy wants: women in jail and facing the death penalty for stillbirths?

Damn COVID and forced birthers, gifts that keeps on giving.

[calimary]

6. And some STILL don't take COVID seriously.

[SoBlueInFL]

7. With virtually everyone acting as though all danger is over and masking gone by the wayside, r/o

I've given up on worrying about others. My husband and I mask and distance and have yet to catch it. I'd like it to stay that way. Long Covid terrifies me.

We may never cross paths but I am grateful for each person who is still masking.

[calimary]

9. My husband and I still mask up. I wear my mask on a tether around my neck

WHENEVER I go out. Seems just courteous, to me.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. That's a powerful story and makes yet another case for getting vaccinated

[Samrob]

10. Hmm..are these the same women in the same families who were anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers?

Pro-Trump evangelicals have a lot to answer for.

[Lucinda]

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