Move pregnant women up vaccine list, says master of Rotunda Information on stillbirths ‘very much preliminary’, further evidence required – HSE Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 09:07 Updated: Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 11:05 The HSE issued an alert after coroners identified coronavirus infection of the placenta as a factor in four stillbirths in January and February
The master of the Rotunda, Prof Fergal Malone has repeated a call for pregnant women to be moved up the vaccination priority list. “Putting them at the end of the queue is not a good thing,” said Prof Malone on Friday morning. Prof Malone was commenting after a number of stillbirths among women with Covid-19 prompted separate alerts from the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Institute of Obstetricians. The HSE alert was issued on Thursday after coroners identified coronavirus infection of the placenta as a factor in four still births in January and February.