The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention again called on pregnant women to be vaccinated on Wednesday, as the Delta variants continue to increase and more and more pregnant women are seriously ill.
“Based on new evidence regarding the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, the CDC recommends that all pregnant women receive the COVID-19 vaccine,” The agency said.
The agency added that it is recommended for people over 12 years of age to get the vaccine, including breastfeeding women, women trying to get pregnant, and women who may become pregnant in the future.
In May of this year, Chief Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat told the Senate that the CDC already had “reassuring data” on vaccines for pregnant women in the third trimester.
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Pregnant women are at higher risk of serious illnesses and pregnancy complications (such as miscarriage or stillbirth). Only 23% of pregnant women received at least one dose of the vaccine. The CDC stated that vaccinated women will not increase the risk of miscarriage.
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said: “When we are faced with the highly transmitted Delta variant and see the serious consequences of COVID-19 in unvaccinated pregnant women, increasing vaccination has never been more urgent.” Dr. Rochelle Varensky.
National data shows that the surge in cases of pregnant women is lower than the winter peak of the outbreak, but this number is even higher in some states with lower vaccination rates. “This is the worst situation we have seen in the pandemic so far,” Jane Martin, An obstetrician from Oxner Baptist Medical Center in New Orleans.
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When the pandemic started, Martin said that almost no pregnant patients in Oxner were sick, but now things have changed. She now says that this hospital “has many critically ill pregnant women admitted to the hospital every day.”
“This is a perfect storm situation,” said Dr. Mark Turrentine, Professor of Obstetrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
“We have found a highly contagious variant of the COVID-19 virus in most people who have not been vaccinated. So we have seen a lot of patients,” Turrentine said.
Turrentine also elaborated on the main risks of asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in pregnant women. “There are three times as many intensive care admissions, cases receiving mechanical ventilation or bypass support have increased by two and a half times, and the risk of receiving mechanical ventilation or bypass support has increased a little more than two and a half times. Death.”
According to the CDC, approximately 105,000 pregnant women have been infected and 18,000 have been hospitalized. A quarter of the hospitalized patients received intensive care, and 124 people died.
