Of all the groups still threatened by COVID-19, it is pregnant women who seem the most unaware of the risks. COVID can kill pregnant women and can result in miscarriage, preterm births and stillbirths even when the women have asymptomatic or mild illness.
Of all the groups still threatened by COVID-19 — including the elderly and the immunocompromised — it is pregnant women who seem the most unaware of the risks.
The United States is now struggling with a mix of respiratory syncytial virus, the flu and the coronavirus, all of which can cause serious illness in pregnant women. The winter is looking grim. “It’s very clear now that if you’re pregnant, planning to get pregnant or breastfeeding, for you and for your baby, it’s very important to get vaccinated,” said Dr. Neel Shah, an assistant professor at Harvard and chief medical officer of Maven Clinic, a digital health care provider for women and families.Pregnant women, their families and even their doctors may not realize the importance of immunization because of “sluggish and muddled” communication from public health agencies, Shah said.
Pregnancy is accompanied by some immune changes, she said, but they don’t compromise the ability to fend off infections as an organ transplant or certain medical conditions might. “The placenta is essentially the lungs for the fetus, and it’s damaged in the same way that lungs are by COVID,” she said. Most babies turn out to be fine, as long as they have completed at least 30 weeks of gestation, she added.
The researchers concluded that there was no significant association. But leaving that information out of the title surely did not reassure doctors, she said.
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