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Sarah Buck Davis and her husband, Brock Davis, had planned to add to their family last year. The Northwest Side couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Sutton, and figured it was a good time to give her a sibling. But the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March, “threw a wrench into that,” Sarah Davis said.  She had just graduated with her master’s degree, and with the economy tanking in the spring, it took longer than expected to find a job as a nurse practitioner. On top of that were the medical concerns of being pregnant during a pandemic. “Having a second kid is not cheap, and I also ha...

For pregnant and nursing women, risks of COVID-19 probably outweigh risk of vaccine, experts say According to a November study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women are significantly more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, to end up on a ventilator, and to die from COVID-19 than women of the same age and health status who aren't pregnant. Written By: Megan Henry and Karen Weintraub / Tribune News Service | 3:57 pm, Dec. 31, 2020 × A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine at George Washington University Hospital on Dec. 14, 2...

None of the large clinical trials of COVID vaccines have included pregnant or nursing mothers, but the benefits are very likely to outweigh the risks.