COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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Heerema-McKenney was in her office when the phone rang. As she listened, she knew that what Odronic was describing was what she and her colleagues had observed repeatedly over the past several months: a patient positive for the coronavirus, a placenta destroyed by COVID-19, a baby stillborn.

Their next discovery was equally stunning. None of the stillbirths they studied involved a pregnant person who had been fully vaccinated. The doctors checked with colleagues across the country and around the world. The fatal pattern held.

Placenta slides (first image) in Dr. Amy Heerema-McKenney’s office at the Cleveland Clinic. Heerema-McKenney (second image), a placenta pathologist, works in the lab. She noticed the impact COVID-19 was having on placentas and stillbirths. Credit:Maddie McGarvey for ProPublica

Unvaccinated women who contracted COVID-19 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.
 

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I was playing basketball with one of my friends and he texted me yesterday morning that he tested positive :snoop:

Hopefully he wasn't contagious as he was testing negative all week. He just came back from Vegas, LA, and somewhere else so he got it on his travels no doubt.

If I stay infection-free, this'll be the 3rd time I was in close proximity to someone who tested positive a day after being with me. My sister in 2020 got it from her job and I was with her the night before she tested positive. Back in May, I was with my co-worker in the same closed room for 2 hours... and then a day later she tested positive but me and my boss didn't.

It's crazy.
 
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