Covid Worsened a Health Crisis Among Pregnant Women

NYT HEALTH: Covid Worsened a Health Crisis Among Pregnant Women
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Section: Health
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 16, 2023 at 02:00AM

In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.

KOKOMO, Ind. — Tammy Cunningham doesn’t remember the birth of her son. She was not quite seven months pregnant when she became acutely ill with Covid-19 in May 2021. By the time she was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital, she was coughing and gasping for breath.
The baby was not due for another 11 weeks, but Ms. Cunningham’s lungs were failing. The medical team, worried that neither she nor the fetus would survive so long as she was pregnant, asked her fiancé to authorize an emergency C-section.
“I asked, ‘Are they both going to make it?’” recalled Matt Cunningham. “And they said they couldn’t answer that.”
New government data suggest that scenes like this played out with shocking frequency in 2021, the second year of the pandemic.
The National Center for Health Statistics reported on Thursday that 1,205 pregnant women died in 2021, representing a 40 percent increase in maternal deaths compared with 2020, when there were 861 deaths, and a 60 percent increase compared with 2019, when there were 754.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/covid-pregnancy-death.html

No Increased Risk" to Pregnant Women From COVID Vaccines, Says Expert Dr. Viki Male – Ask Dr. Drew

"The miscarriage rate following COVID vaccination in women is the same as normal," says Dr. Viki Male, an expert lecturer at Imperial College London. She says claims that the rate is higher than normal – such as those by Naomi Wolf showing a 4000% increase in pregnancy loss – are based on faulty numbers because they include all miscarriages "after seeing a heartbeat on a scan" and are "based on a misunderstanding of how spontaneous reporting works." ••「 LINKS & SOURCES: https://drdrew.com/3162023 」••


"Studies of more than 360,000 people vaccinated against COVID in pregnancy find no increased risk of pregnancy loss," tweeted Dr. Male. She joins Ask Dr. Drew LIVE to discuss the data and safety of mRNA vaccines for pregnant women.

Dr. Victoria Male is a Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Immunology based in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London. She received a PhD at the University of Cambridge on NK cells in human pregnancy. In 2015, she was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Male was also involved in collating and communicating information on the effect of SARS-CoV2 infection and COVID vaccination on fertility, pregnancy, and breastfeeding, and in research on how COVID vaccination affects the menstrual cycle.
Find more about Dr. Male at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/v.male and follow her at https://twitter.com/VikiLovesFACS

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