requested to return to myanmar because of job losses and are returning to myanmar voluntarily. this statement contradicts the appeals we are hearing on the ground. translator: i want to request the chinese government to postpone the plan. we want to stay longer here and don t want to be sent back home. reporter: it is unclear if any of the people we spoke to have tested positive for covid-19. meanwhile, on the other side of the border, chinese migrant workers are rushing back into china from myanmar, fleeing war and covid-19, they find themselves stuck in a long queue outside of the border gate, waiting to be processed. hi-long, not his real name, worked as a free lance fighter, hired by a northern militia government in myanmar and did not want to wait any longer. translator: the epidemic control measures were very poor there. the medical facility standard was poor, too. if i get covid, i don t think they would be able to save me. hai long says he walked for
have had late pregnancy loss in 22 weeks in the state of mississippi. that s far higher than the background rate for stillbirths that we ve seen. and consider these findings by the journal of american medical association network. it found that compared to women who don t have covid, women who are infected are five times more likely to need icu care, 14 times more likely to need intubation. and far more likely to die in childbirth. dr. christina adams waldorf is an obstetrician, gynecologist, and professor of global health at the university of washington. thank you so much for joining us. we re getting more and more tragic reports of pregnant women dying of covid. women who most, if not all, weren t vaccinated. some really sad stories out there. what have you been seeing? we ve been seeing exactly the
by the time it was approved for many, the damage was already done. i agree. this was a huge problem from the very beginning. pregnant women should never have been excluded from the vaccine trials. and this really has set up kind of a lot of misinformation that has, you know, created this problem. i mean, right now, as obstetricians, we are getting a crash course of how to take care of pregnant women on ecmo, which is a heart/lung bypass machine. we have never had to do this before. this is only because of covid-19. and it just shows you just how severely ill many of these mothers are. and this is what is so heartbreak, when you know that if they were vaccinated, that this could have been prevented. this is the most important thing in our field right now. you brought up misinformation, so i wanted to touch on that, because there have been so many false claims on social media saying that the vaccine will make women infertile or sterile, for
i trust em you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now! more americans could soon be eligible for a covid booster shot after a panel of fda advisers voted to recommend the shots for older and high-risk americans. they ve stopped short of recommending a third dose for everyone else, though a final decision is still on the way. now, it comes as parts of the country are seeing a surge in covid hospitalizations, driven by unvaccinated americans. some hospitals in idaho, montana, and alaska are so overwhelmed, they ve had to start rationing care. we re also seeing a devastating new trend emerge. unvaccinated pregnant people dying in higher numbers than sometimes their unborn children,
as well. the reality of just how dangerous covid can be is unfolding right now in mississippi. the state is coming off a peak that saw an average of 3,500 new cases per day. even now, that number is hovering close to 2,000 a day. and since late july, at least eight pregnant women in mississippi have died from covid. officials say none of them were fully vaccinated. the state is also investigating dozens of stillbirths among women infected with the virus. health officials describe the situation as a tragedy. throughout the course of the pandemic, we have lost 15 moms to covid-19 during their pregnancy. very much a tragedy. but of that number, eight of them have been lost since the end of july. and so, really important to consider the risk that pregnant women might have when it comes to covid-19. it can be deadly for moms. and make sure folks remember, we