The delta variant that caused a surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States this summer is particularly dangerous for pregnant people, new research shows.
The CDC's advisory was too late to help some families who are watching their loved ones fight COVID-19 after contracting it during pregnancy.
One day after Autumn Carver was hospitalized, she underwent an emergency c-section to deliver the couple's third child, a son named Huxley. Autumn Carver had no preexisting conditions and was doing CrossFit workouts right up until she started feeling COVID-19 symptoms, according to her husband. Her last words before she was sedated were that she thought she was going to have a boy, he said.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use mRNA technology, which does not enter the nucleus of the cells and doesn’t alter the human DNA. They are the first mRNA vaccines, which are theoretically safe during pregnancy because they do not contain a live virus.Jamal Chubb, of South Carolina, said his wife, Cierra Chubb, was waiting for more data on the safety of the vaccines for pregnant people before getting vaccinated against COVID-19 herself.
Just two days after she was admitted to a hospital in July, Cierra Chubb had to undergo an emergency c-section because her pregnancy was in distress, according to her husband. "The [doctors] were only letting me go [into the hospital] to see her on days they thought she was going to die," he said."They said that even if she woke up, she would not be the same."After spending close to one month on an ECMO machine, Cierra Chubb's condition began to improve in what doctors say is a miracle, according to Jamal Chubb.
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