One in six most critically ill patients are unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid

NHS England release statistics after evidence Covid can cause serious problems for mothers-to-be and their babies

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One in six patients requiring the NHS’s highest form of life-saving care are unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid, new figures reveal.

Twenty of the 118 patients with Covid who received extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (Ecmo) between July and September were mothers-to-be, NHS England said.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3Bvsubw