COVID vaccines safely protect pregnant people: the data are in

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The data show that the risks of COVID-19 during pregnancy far outweigh the risks of being vaccinated. And yet, according to data from the CDC, only around 40% of pregnant people in the US had been vaccinated against COVID-19 by the start of this year

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“When she woke up and started to not feel very well, I don’t think it was within her wildest dreams that by the next morning she would be sedated and by herself in an ICU,” Cahill says. The woman spent a few weeks in the unit before she was finally able to go home.Health-care professionals were still sharing similar gut-wrenching stories when the Delta variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 hit the United States.

“Then you take a viral illness that is potentially life threatening — one that affects the lungs and the cardiovascular system — and you have the perfect storm,” says Andrea Edlow, a maternal–fetal medicine specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.But the precise danger remained an open question until scientists could quantify it.

 

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Pregnant people?

‘fully vaccinated’ what a joke and pls stop promoting the pharma industry. Pls ask your government to ensure pharma is liable for damages and deaths as results from the needle

Geez. Maybe that has to do with the utter lack of transparency (regardless of whether the data shown is correct or not).

A science publication called Nature can't acknowledge the scientific reality that only women can get pregnant?!

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