In the wake of The deadliest month of the epidemic for pregnant women so fardr. Manisha Gandhi told CNBC she is not optimistic about Covid-19 this winter.
“Handling this wave and taking care of really sick women has had a huge impact,” says Gandy, MD, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital. “I’m still worried that this is just another lull for another potential surge.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Urgent message for pregnant women Wednesday for a Covid-19 vaccine. The agency reported that at least 22,000 pregnant women with Covid have been hospitalized and more than 160 have died, including 22 in August.
Gandhi, who treated pregnant women with Covid, said: “The News with Shepherd Smith” Not only are mothers with Covid ‘sicker’, but it also affects newborns.
“We also have to deliver them prematurely, so they have to deal with complications themselves, but then we have to deliver their baby to improve their health, and that leads to the baby having to go to his ICU,” he explained. Gandhi.
less than a third Of all pregnant women in the United States who are fully vaccinated, nearly 97% of pregnant women hospitalized with Covid-19 in 2021 have not yet been vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gandhi told host Sheppard Smith that more than nine months of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should assure pregnant women that the vaccine is safe.
The obstetrician/gynaecologist said: “This should really help the women, that this is a safe vaccine and that they can really make sure that nothing, any adverse event is to be expected.”
Gandhi added: “For people who are concerned about things in their bodies, once you have Covid and get really sick, I have to give a lot of drugs with a lot less safety data than this vaccine.”
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