Thread by @DrEricDing

📍Pregnancy & #COVID19—“The #DeltaVariant in unvaccinated pregnant patients is one of the most horrifying disease processes I’ve ever seen. My heart is broken. Families are grieving. ➡️Moms are never meeting their babies”—Find our humanity to #vaccinate 🧵
scientificamerican.com/article/pregna…

2) “She was having trouble getting a full breath. That was the first thing. The day before, Autumn Carver, seven months pregnant with her third child, had enjoyed a CrossFit class. Now a simple cough was compounded by the breathing issues, which rapidly worsened.”

3) “It wasn’t long before her husband took Autumn to Community Hospital South and then began a series of heartbreaking Facebook updates.
As COVID-19 began to ravage Autumn’s system, the 34-year-old’s condition deteriorated with dizzying speed. facebook.com/593968021/post…

4) The physicians started her on life-supporting oxygenation therapy, then placed her on a ventilator and admitted her to the ICU. She was flown by helicopter to Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, where a crash C-section delivered baby 2 months premature.

5) Within a week of being admitted, Autumn was under sedation and paralyzed as physicians worked to relieve the pneumonia filling her lungs with fluid.

6) “Please pray her lungs begin to heal,” Zach wrote on Facebook on September 9. “She is fighting so hard, and I am so proud of her,” he wrote two days later. Not long after, doctors told Zach that a double lung transplant might be his wife ’s only chance for survival.

7) The couple is still hoping for that “miracle,” Zach wrote on September 18. More than a month into her ICU stay, Autumn has still not met her newborn son.

8) the couple apparently didn’t vaccinate the mom because she had two miscarriages before — this is wrong move. If you’re more precautious, then YOU SHOULD VACCINATE to be more protected. wrtv.com/news/coronavir…

9) “Some unvaccinated pregnant people are suffering far worse courses of COVID than those who have been inoculated, and the consequences can be severe. According to CDC, ➡️ 22,000 pregnant people have been hospitalized, and 161 have died, because of COVID as of September 27.”

10) getting put on a ventilator is crushing to the body. Being pregnant and on ventilator can be even worse. Don’t take chances. #vaccinate

https://twitter.com/weselymd/status/1444992227336499212

11) doctors say, we now have a new class of kids forever known as #covid babies, born to mothers on ventilators in the ICU. Let that sink in.

https://twitter.com/weselymd/status/1444996305776951300