Special Report: As More Women Fill America’s Jails, Medical Tragedies Mount
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By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.
Swayzer had arrived a week earlier, on July 6, 2016, picked up after a dispute with a hotel clerk and charged with disorderly conduct and a parole violation from an old burglary conviction. She was clearly pregnant, just a few weeks from her due date, and police had her evaluated at a hospital before bringing her to jail. The fetus was deemed active and healthy, and Swayzer cleared for detention.
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Should pregnant women get vaccinated against COVID-19?
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Pfizer Global Supply plant in Portage, Michigan on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Pfizer is preparing to ship COVID-19 vaccine out of Portage facility upon FDA approval. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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Federal and local health officials say pregnant women should have the choice if they would like to be vaccinated for COVID-19 when a vaccine is available to them.
While more research is needed to determine potential effects of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on pregnant and breastfeeding individuals, health experts say there isn’t any known increased risk from the vaccine compared to non-pregnant individuals.
AP Medical Writer
Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths.
“Relieved,” proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. “I feel like healing is coming.”
With a countdown of “3-2-1,” workers at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause.
And in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis personally opened a delivery door to the FedEx driver and signed for a package holding 975 precious frozen doses of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech.
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