COVID-19 can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women, and experts believe it was the main reason for the 2021 spike.
women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday, March 16, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. FILE – A pregnant and intubated COVID-19 patient lies in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in a hospital in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Aug. Part of that was related to limited vaccine availability, and that the CDC did not fully recommend shots for pregnant women until August 2021. It didn’t help that vaccination rates among pregnant women were disappointingly low in 2021 - particularly among Black women. Elizabeth Cherot, chief medical and health officer for the March of Dimes. And then on top of that, “COVID is going to make all that much worse,” said Dr. Other health problems can make their condition more fragile. The bodies of pregnant women are already under strain, their heart forced to pump harder.
Pregnant women infected with the coronavirus were nearly 8 times as likely to die as their uninfected peers, according to a recent study published by BMJ Global Health. Previous government analyses concluded that one quarter of maternal deaths in 20 were COVID-related - meaning that the entire increase in maternal deaths was due to coronavirus infections or the pandemic’s wider impact on health care. Wyoming governor signs measure prohibiting abortion pills
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