Prognosis
Pregnant, Unvaccinated and Intubated: Case Surge Alarms Doctors
- Vaccine trials that omitted pregnant patients led to hesitancy
- U.S. health officials urge expecting people to get the vaccine
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More young and healthy pregnant people are ending up hospitalized on ventilators, delivering babies prematurely and sometimes dying from Covid-19 during the delta-fueled spike in cases.
Doctors across the country are reporting this trend, not seen in previous surges, largely in the South but also in states like California and Washington. As of Aug. 14, 76.2% of pregnant people were unvaccinated.