Oxford’s scientists from the Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, have published a report which helps identify improvements needed in the maternity sector.
Pregnant women are being urged to get the covid vaccine after an expert group found that “confused messaging and vaccine hesitancy” may have contributed to the deaths of 27 women during the pandemic in the UK.
The women who died from covid-19 pneumonitis had not been vaccinated although they were eligible and could have received two doses of vaccine before they died. Some declined, and in some cases there was no documentation that vaccination had been discussed. Only one of the women who died had received a single dose and two other women who died from influenza had not received a flu vaccine during pregnancy.
The new analysis from the MBRRACE-UK collaboration, co-led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, examined the circumstances of women who died during or up to …
First-ever summit on maternal mortality in Ottawa called for improvements in tracking maternal deaths, which the WHO estimates are 60 per cent higher than Canada’s official figures