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The director of the HSE's National Women and Infants Programme has said it is "more important" that pregnant women protect themselves from Covid-19 than the rest of the population, but he does not think all pregnant women should be automatically vaccinated.
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 ...
Two of the stillbirths were included in Nphet’s daily mortality figures on Thursday evening. Meanwhile, while international experience showed it was “not unusual” for Covid-19 to cause placental infection, stillbirth was an “unusual complication”, Prof Peter McKenna, head of the HSE women and infants health programme, told The Irish Times. The fact four stillbirths had occurred in a short time and among the small population of women with Covid-19 had raised concerns, prompting the HSE to issue the alert, he said. Despite the absence of international evidence for Covid-related still...
10 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Clare this evening with 462 new cases confirmed nationwide. Clare’s incidence rate of 146.4 per 100,000 people is the tenth lowest in the country. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 39 additional deaths related to COVID-19. 10 of these deaths occurred in March, 12 occurred in February, 13 […]
Obstetricians have been asked to be on alert following four stillbirths in pregnant women infected with Covid-19 which could potentially be linked to the virus.