Norman Swan
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10,274 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
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And really, the bottom line here is it's not good to get COVID-19 when you're pregnant.
It is influenced by other factors such as the medical care available, how debilitated you might be to begin with.
But essentially, you're likely to get high blood pressure, which risks convulsions and loss of the baby and loss of maternal life.
you're more likely to die 22 times relative risk increase in terms of dying.
But the caveat there is it's got a very wide interval.
It could be as low as three times and as high as 172 times.
It means that there probably weren't that many deaths and so the range is quite wide, but there is a significant increase.
So that's women who have got symptomatic COVID-19, who are really quite sick with their COVID-19.
But if you're asymptomatic in COVID-19 and you're pregnant,
There are still risks, but they're not as bad as if you're, they're much, much less than if you've actually got symptomatic COVID-19.
That's absolutely right.
And in the second study, which was in the New England Journal of Medicines, was looking at the safety of the mRNA vaccines in pregnancy.
And it's a short study, still quite preliminary in findings, but they're not getting any safety signals.
In other words, worrying signals out of pregnancies.
This is women in a variety of stages of pregnancy, and they're not seeing any poor outcomes at this point.
So it seems okay, but smallish numbers and early days.
But I think you'll see more papers published on this.
So the pregnancy story with the vaccine seems to be fine.
No, and pregnant women in Australia, if they choose to get the vaccine, will get the Pfizer vaccine because they're under 50.
Yeah, so 500 beds next to an existing quarantine facility in Mickleham in the northern suburbs about 30 kilometres from the CBD of Melbourne.
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