Doctors have issued an urgent warning to any pregnant Australian women who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19. 9News
Doctors have issued an urgent warning to any pregnant Australian women who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19."It is a really dangerous disease in pregnancy," Dr Langdon said."During pregnancy, our immune system becomes really sleepy, so when we do catch infections like COVID our body can't mount the same immune response."
Data from the US have revealed pregnant women who catch the Delta variant have a one-in-36 chance of having a stillborn baby. "At the moment in the UK where there is a huge amount of disease - one in six people in the ICU is a pregnant unvaccinated woman," said Dr Langdon. Alex Smith, who is a science teacher and new mum to five-week-old Walter, told 9News her decision to get vaccinated during pregnancy was simple."If there was a premature delivery or god forbid he passed away — to know I could have done something, I don't know how I would have coped," she said.She's relieved she will pass on protective antibodies to her baby.Eliza is pregnant with her fourth child and was vaccinated at 14 weeks.
"These are extremely safe vaccines and there is absolutely no reason not to go and get yourself one," Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid said.
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