Health officials said a hospital in India has linked the death of a 31-year-old pregnant woman to complications related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Mahima Mathew is a resident of the Kottayam district in Kerala, India. She was in the first trimester of pregnancy when she died on August 20. Covishield August 6.
Five days later, the 31-year-old pregnant woman suffered severe headaches and was admitted to the same hospital on August 15. A day later, she was declared brain dead. She died on August 20.
The doctor at the hospital said that the woman’s cause of death was Cerebral Vein Thrombosis, This happens when a blood clot forms in the venous sinuses of the brain; related to vaccines Thrombocytopenia, And the patients all have low platelet counts.
However, health officials in the Kottayam health district said they are still waiting for the final autopsy report.
“We don’t know under what circumstances the hospital linked the death to the COVID vaccine. One week after the vaccination, she started to have a headache. We are waiting for the autopsy report. In addition, the death will be reviewed by a team of doctors. We will only get it until then. Come to a conclusion,” said Dr. Jacob Varghese, a medical officer in the area. India Express Report.
More and more studies have shown that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe for pregnant women.In one April Learn Researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine said they found no safety signals among 35,691 pregnant women who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also released new data August 11 This shows that they did not find any safety issues with the vaccinated pregnant women.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky wrote in a report: “Vaccines are safe and effective when we are faced with highly infectious Delta variants and seen in unvaccinated pregnant women With the serious consequences of COVID-19, increasing vaccination has never been more urgent.” Media release.
According to statistics, as of August 23, India has performed more than 581 million injections, accounting for 23% of the country’s total population. Yahoo Finance.
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