‘I’m pregnant in my 40s, and nobody will give me a Covid vaccine’
Despite guidance that women should be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna jabs during pregnancy, the reality is very different
Gabriella Le Breton has been left frustrated in her attempts to receive a vaccine
As a pregnant soon-to-turn-44-year-old, I was reassured to hear the news in mid-April that pregnant women in the UK would be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines in their age-related cohorts. Then last week the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that all adults aged 18-39 should be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine once they become eligible for vaccination.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 25April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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both new Covid cases and US deaths attributed to the virus were lower during the past week. New Covid infections during the week ending April 24th were down 16.3% from during the week ending April 17th, and down 76.7% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.0% from the prior week, and down 79.0% from the January peak. New infections in the states that had been leading the early spring surge, including Mi
New study reveals pregnant women 20 times more likely to die before childbirth Muhammad Mussa | 23.04.2021
LONDON
Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 face a higher risk of death than those who are not, a new study has revealed.
The analysis, by a team of international scientists from the University of Oxford and published on the JAMA Paediatrics Network, found that pregnant women with the infection are also more likely to see their newborn babies die of the virus.
“Women with COVID-19 diagnosis were at increased risk of a composite maternal morbidity and mortality index. Newborns of women with COVID-19 diagnosis had significantly higher severe neonatal morbidity index and severe perinatal morbidity and mortality index compared with newborns of women without COVID-19 diagnosis,” a statement from the Network said.