That decision left pregnant people with little research to rely on when making a critical decision on how best to keep the babies growing inside of them safe.Īt the same time that research was excluding pregnant people from vaccine trials, a full-scale assault on vaccination was unfolding online.
Pharmaceutical companies and government officials failed to ensure that pregnant people were included in the early development of the COVID-19 vaccine, a calamitous decision made amid the urgency of a rapidly spreading pandemic. How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away In the world of placenta pathology, a new affliction is unusual, especially one so dramatic in presentation and so devastating in effect. Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta. Seven days before the stillbirth, the mother had tested positive for COVID-19. Then, buried in the middle of the report, she spotted something. Odronic, a pathologist, noticed severe damage in the placentas of pregnant people who had COVID-19. Shelley Odronic works in her office in Lima, Ohio. None looked like this - withered and scarred. Odronic had examined many placentas from pregnancies that ended in stillbirth. In dark letters were the words “fetal demise.” A stillbirth, the death of a fetus at 20 weeks or more of pregnancy. She asked her secretary to print out the patient’s chart. “Right away, I knew it wasn’t compatible with life,” Odronic said. Fact-based, independent journalism is needed now more than ever.
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