Pregnant women should 'strongly consider' getting vaccine when it's available - NMH Master
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He said: “We are aware that pregnant patients who develop COVID-19 are at greater risk of hospital admissions, requiring ventilatory support, increased risk of pre-term birth and stillbirth. That’s what the evidence to date would indicate.
“But we’re not seeing that in our maternity populations here in Ireland.
"We’ve delivered nearly 7,000 babies since the start of the pandemic here at the National Maternity Hospital… we’ve had just over 80 positive cases… and they’ve all done very well.
“Most of the pregnant population who’ve developed the infection have had very mild, asymptomatic courses of the disease. Very few of them have been symptomatic."