Thread by @DrEricDing

Devastating—An unvaccinated mother with #COVID19 delivers her baby on a ventilator—she died never holding her baby. CDC warns complications can be deadly for both mother & baby—expecting mothers who get COVID have 2x ICU admissions & 70% ⬆️risk of dying.🧵
npr.org/2021/10/23/104…

2) "The risk of putting your life at risk, your unborn child's life at risk, is not worth it," says Dr. Rebecca Wineland. She is the director of labor and delivery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

3) Wineland says expecting mothers infected with the fast spreading Delta variant are at a greater risk for stillbirths, babies with restricted growth and pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal and infant death worldwide.

4) “It will absolutely save your life and decrease your risk of hospitalization if you were to get COVID," Wineland says.
But the message came too late for Scott Baisley and his two-month-old son Sullivan who live just outside Charleston.

5) “Scott cradles the crying infant trying to comfort him.
Scott's wife Clair was 33 years old when she collapsed on the floor of their home in August, within days of being diagnosed with COVID. She was quickly hospitalized with double pneumonia.

6) A week later, doctors decided they had to deliver Sullivan by C-section. Clair was put on a ventilator and given a 10% chance to live. Less than a month after her diagnosis, doctors were desperately trying to save her.

7) "But that was it. I watched her numbers drop. I watched her blood oxygen continue to go down. I watched her heart rate increase," Scott says.

8) Don’t orphan your kids. Get vaccinated

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1428328493713084423

9) too many kids have been orphaned by #COVID19 already. 120,000 doesn’t even include the recent #DeltaVariant wave either.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1446318230092533768