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COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy?taid=64d06c4966d1df0001ff11e6&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter “#Unvaccinated #women who contracted #COVID19 during #pregnancy were at a higher risk of #stillbirths. They also were more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit, give birth prematurely or die. Yet their greatest protection — the COVID-19 vaccine — sat largely untouched, buried under doubt, polluted by #disinformation.”
“November also marked a key moment in the understanding of #COVID19’s impact on #stillbirths. A CDC study looking at 1.2 million births in the first 18 months of the pandemic found that more than 8,000 #pregnancies ended in stillbirths, including more than 270 of them in patients with a documented COVID-19 diagnosis at the time of delivery.”
“Although #stillbirths were rare overall, babies were dying. The risk of a stillbirth nearly doubled for those who had #COVID19 during #pregnancy compared with those who didn’t. And during the spread of the delta variant, that risk was four times higher.”
“Indeed, doctors discovered that some #stillbirths resulted from #COVID19 directly infiltrating the #placenta, a condition they named #SARSCoV2 #placentitis. Cases were found even in people whose COVID-19 symptoms were mild or nonexistent.”
“In the hurried quest for a safe and effective #COVID19 #vaccine, pharmaceutical companies and government officials did not include #pregnant people in their initial plans. It’s a failure that continues to reverberate.
“They absolutely should have been included in COVID vaccine trials from the beginning,” said Kathryn Schubert, president and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research”
“Researchers and advocates have spent more than four decades trying to dismantle the belief that it’s unsafe or unethical for #pregnant women to participate in #ClinicalTrials.”
“In 2018, the federal task force issued recommendations calling for including #pregnant and #breastfeeding people in biomedical research, and the Department of Health and Human Services adopted some of the guidance. But a gap remained between what the task force and others insisted was needed and what was actually happening