I took care of pregnant women during covid and it was awful! Pneumonia and sudden decompensation was a constant, not to mention what covid did to the fetus. We ALL need vaccines or at least the option of them!!!
It was horrible. I was isolated for 7 days postpartum after a traumatic emergency cesarean. My son was in the NICU since he was born at 36+0. I had NO lactation support really, and the CNAs had no idea how to clean my pumping supplies properly, they only rinsed them off and gave them back to me to figure out.
Nobody came in to make sure I was eating, hydrated, could go to the bathroom. I often sat unattended for hours after pressing the button for help because others were in worse shape than me and they were so severely under staffed.
I’m so sorry you had that as your birthing experience. I’m truly glad you survived. This administration’s callous disregard for medical care, vaccines,and medical research is very concerning. I do not want to work another pandemic.
I’m so terrified that another pandemic is practically guaranteed. Between bird flu, Covid, measles, etc. and NO support from the current administration who is actively suppressing information, research, and vaccine distribution…
I have Long Covid. Each time you get Covid you have a chance to get Long Covid. This doesn’t make sense to me. Why not try and protect those that are still healthy and want the vaccine?
Call RFK Jr directly at 202-690-7000. Let them know how this affects you personally.
For example… (TLDR: I nearly died in childbirth and nearly lost my baby bc of Covid.)
When I had my son in Sept of 2021, it was because I got Covid at 35 weeks and went into preterm labor with placental abruption at 35+6.
I had to demand the cesarean that saved my life, scream “no” and cross my legs when the OB attempted to break my water without consent. My placenta was crumbling into pieces, I had to be put under for the surgery.
I woke up without my baby. He had to stay isolated in the NICU for 7 days from me while I was dying in the Covid ward.
*I WASN’T VACCINATED*
People like me died. I was nearly slipping into a coma every single time I went into a reclined position. My heart rate would drop to 20bpm when I slept, and I’d wake up to doctors frantically sticking on the things to run an EKG, one was flashing a light in my eye to check responsiveness, another nurse was asking me questions like “do you know where you are, what’s your name?”
For three months after that, I had severe heart and respiratory issues. Finally, when I was recovered enough, I GOT VACCINATED. And I stay up to date on the Covid shot because I literally almost lost my life and my son’s.
When I got pregnant with my daughter, I got the Covid vaccine in my second trimester without ANY hesitation.
This is a vaccine that literally SAVES LIVES. If I had taken it the second it was recommended to me, I wouldn’t have had to go through all that. Statistically, getting the shot in pregnancy reduces the risk of infant and maternal mortality. *That is a fact*.
You have to ignore these idiots. Listen to the real scientists. Save yourself. These jerks are telling you not to use the lifeboats while there is time before the ship starts to go down.
RFK Jr. once again proving that "mAkE aMeRiCa HeAlThY aGaIn" is just eugenics. This POS clearly just wants COVID (and other diseases we can effectively vaccinate against) to take out as many people as possible, either by doing the entire job itself or by leaving its targets sufficiently maimed to be targetable by any, uh, "cleansing" he and his fellow MAGA scumbags do along the lines of the 3rd Reich's Aktion T4.
Quite frankly, I'm sick myself of people continuing to call these MAGAts stupid and incompetent, bc no, they're NOT actually stupid or even all that incompetent if, instead of running the country and doing their STATED jobs, you look at them as carrying out the mission of Nazi-style fascist eugenics up to and including another Final Solution.
Gawd ... why not make it discretionary for an individual's doctor and the patient to secure a vaccine if it holds any medical advantage for them - because Knowledge and Reason are no longer in the room amongst these disturbed pricks. Makaray has user eye droop, Kennedy obviously has pervasive brain disturbance - his eyes are not in the same room! And Bhattachayra has a well-established seat on the band wagon of cruelty and medical heresy. Jump up and make a lot of noise because there is nothing but insanity and spite in that trio.
Both of my boys were in the covid vaccine trials. I had one in each, Moderna and Pfizer, because of their age differences. They were 8 and 5 at the time. It feels like a slap in the face for the work they contributed to. They are perfectly healthy and a the top of their classes academically. Make it make sense.
First: thank you so much for continuing to write on these topics. So many of us appreciate it.
I just made an appointment for my daughter and I to get the most recent booster (again), even if I have to pay out of pocket. Would you say this is the best course of action?
Pregnancy is not a “low-risk” condition as any medical professional who understands the physiological changes a pregnant person goes through knows. Also, pertinent to actual public health, both pregnant people and children can spread disease! Please talk to your own medical providers and do not believe these crackpots. 😡
This is so frustrating to read. As a labor nurse and childbirth educator, pregnant patients look to the CDC for guidance and and ask for recommendations all the time. Seeing how far we have fallen in such a short time is so disheartening. I can only hope their providers are telling them otherwise and their insurance companies continue to cover the vaccine. This is beyond irresponsible. Two of those men know better - they should be ashamed. The third has no business setting any public health policy.
I took care of pregnant women during covid and it was awful! Pneumonia and sudden decompensation was a constant, not to mention what covid did to the fetus. We ALL need vaccines or at least the option of them!!!
It was horrible. I was isolated for 7 days postpartum after a traumatic emergency cesarean. My son was in the NICU since he was born at 36+0. I had NO lactation support really, and the CNAs had no idea how to clean my pumping supplies properly, they only rinsed them off and gave them back to me to figure out.
Nobody came in to make sure I was eating, hydrated, could go to the bathroom. I often sat unattended for hours after pressing the button for help because others were in worse shape than me and they were so severely under staffed.
I’m so sorry you had that as your birthing experience. I’m truly glad you survived. This administration’s callous disregard for medical care, vaccines,and medical research is very concerning. I do not want to work another pandemic.
I’m so terrified that another pandemic is practically guaranteed. Between bird flu, Covid, measles, etc. and NO support from the current administration who is actively suppressing information, research, and vaccine distribution…
We would be better off with a witch doctor instead of a dimwit like Kennedy!!
I have Long Covid. Each time you get Covid you have a chance to get Long Covid. This doesn’t make sense to me. Why not try and protect those that are still healthy and want the vaccine?
Call RFK Jr directly at 202-690-7000. Let them know how this affects you personally.
For example… (TLDR: I nearly died in childbirth and nearly lost my baby bc of Covid.)
When I had my son in Sept of 2021, it was because I got Covid at 35 weeks and went into preterm labor with placental abruption at 35+6.
I had to demand the cesarean that saved my life, scream “no” and cross my legs when the OB attempted to break my water without consent. My placenta was crumbling into pieces, I had to be put under for the surgery.
I woke up without my baby. He had to stay isolated in the NICU for 7 days from me while I was dying in the Covid ward.
*I WASN’T VACCINATED*
People like me died. I was nearly slipping into a coma every single time I went into a reclined position. My heart rate would drop to 20bpm when I slept, and I’d wake up to doctors frantically sticking on the things to run an EKG, one was flashing a light in my eye to check responsiveness, another nurse was asking me questions like “do you know where you are, what’s your name?”
For three months after that, I had severe heart and respiratory issues. Finally, when I was recovered enough, I GOT VACCINATED. And I stay up to date on the Covid shot because I literally almost lost my life and my son’s.
When I got pregnant with my daughter, I got the Covid vaccine in my second trimester without ANY hesitation.
This is a vaccine that literally SAVES LIVES. If I had taken it the second it was recommended to me, I wouldn’t have had to go through all that. Statistically, getting the shot in pregnancy reduces the risk of infant and maternal mortality. *That is a fact*.
You have to ignore these idiots. Listen to the real scientists. Save yourself. These jerks are telling you not to use the lifeboats while there is time before the ship starts to go down.
Disgusting!
RFK Jr. once again proving that "mAkE aMeRiCa HeAlThY aGaIn" is just eugenics. This POS clearly just wants COVID (and other diseases we can effectively vaccinate against) to take out as many people as possible, either by doing the entire job itself or by leaving its targets sufficiently maimed to be targetable by any, uh, "cleansing" he and his fellow MAGA scumbags do along the lines of the 3rd Reich's Aktion T4.
Quite frankly, I'm sick myself of people continuing to call these MAGAts stupid and incompetent, bc no, they're NOT actually stupid or even all that incompetent if, instead of running the country and doing their STATED jobs, you look at them as carrying out the mission of Nazi-style fascist eugenics up to and including another Final Solution.
Gawd ... why not make it discretionary for an individual's doctor and the patient to secure a vaccine if it holds any medical advantage for them - because Knowledge and Reason are no longer in the room amongst these disturbed pricks. Makaray has user eye droop, Kennedy obviously has pervasive brain disturbance - his eyes are not in the same room! And Bhattachayra has a well-established seat on the band wagon of cruelty and medical heresy. Jump up and make a lot of noise because there is nothing but insanity and spite in that trio.
Both of my boys were in the covid vaccine trials. I had one in each, Moderna and Pfizer, because of their age differences. They were 8 and 5 at the time. It feels like a slap in the face for the work they contributed to. They are perfectly healthy and a the top of their classes academically. Make it make sense.
Sure am glad I'm done having kids. 😒
First: thank you so much for continuing to write on these topics. So many of us appreciate it.
I just made an appointment for my daughter and I to get the most recent booster (again), even if I have to pay out of pocket. Would you say this is the best course of action?
Pregnancy is not a “low-risk” condition as any medical professional who understands the physiological changes a pregnant person goes through knows. Also, pertinent to actual public health, both pregnant people and children can spread disease! Please talk to your own medical providers and do not believe these crackpots. 😡
My trust in the CDC has officially been undermined.
This is so frustrating to read. As a labor nurse and childbirth educator, pregnant patients look to the CDC for guidance and and ask for recommendations all the time. Seeing how far we have fallen in such a short time is so disheartening. I can only hope their providers are telling them otherwise and their insurance companies continue to cover the vaccine. This is beyond irresponsible. Two of those men know better - they should be ashamed. The third has no business setting any public health policy.
Words are insufficient for the rage I feel for those vile cretins. The damage they are doing is unfathomable. 🤬
Do mental health issues in children qualify them as high risk, like adults?