A Missouri nurse lost her baby to Covid. She's fighting for pregnant women to get vaccinated.

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A Missouri nurse lost her baby to Covid. She's fighting for pregnant women to get vaccinated.
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'I just want Axel's legacy to be one that helps save someone, helps them get the vaccine, so that this never happens again,' she said.

found that pregnant women did not have harmful or severe side effects from receiving the vaccination. More than 17,000 people participated in the study.

Some Covid patients who gave birth in the hospital have died from complications caused by the virus and didn't get to meet their child. Others lost their baby or had to quarantine without meeting their newborn. Vanessa Alfermann, a nurse at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, moments after getting vaccinated in December, a little over a month after she lost her baby due to complications caused by Covid-19.Alfermann said there is a lot of misinformation among her patients and in conversations with friends and family. She said it is traumatizing to see those close to her spread bad information, and it has forced her to cut some people out of her life.

"It's like we're drowning, and to be honest I'm pissed off," she said."I'm mad we have to deal with this, and, to be a little selfish, I'm mad that I have to deal with this. But I love being a nurse, I love taking care of people, and I do it for Axel. No one else should have to lose their baby or their son or daughter or mother or father."

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