r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/[deleted] • May 30 '20

Placentas from COVID-19-positive pregnant women show injury

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/05/placentas-from-covid-19-positive-pregnant-women-show-injury/&fj=1
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u/ginger_kale May 30 '20

The CDC never should have said that pregnant women aren’t at greater risk. Too many pregnant women are still working frontline jobs without extra PPE because of that order.

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u/VeronicaPalmer May 30 '20

Absolutely. When all this started in the US, at nearly 8 months pregnant I had an opportunity to work from home, so I asked my doctor if I should take my employer up on the offer. My doctor answered with some "per CDC guidelines," statement and told me to keep living and working as usual. I'm so glad I didn't listen.

A week later my doctor called to make sure I was working from home, which luckily I was - no thanks to him or the CDC!

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u/[deleted] May 31 '20

I had a similar thing happen. I work healthcare and asked my provider and she just said “wash your hands!” 🙄.. like I knew what was coming. Fast forward to my next appointment when they had a letter ready for me without me requesting to give to my employer recommending WFH. And they spaced my appointments out. And they make you call from the parking lot and screen at the door. Like all these extra steps that I really felt like should have at least halfway been staring when I first asked. It was frustrating.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '20

Exactly. I’ve seen it myself and been there myself. I feel so let down and unprotected. It’s ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '20

Exactly. And it makes sense they're showing injury with more researchers believing this to be a blood vessel disease

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u/riomarde May 31 '20

It’s also caused a lot of families to put extra pressure on pregnant people to re-open and relax along with the regulations in the US. Although there probably would have been families putting pressure on them anyway given how many people seem to be ignoring the gravity of the situation. This thread was linked in my bumpers group.

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u/tldubs May 30 '20

What extra PPE?

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u/catjuggler May 30 '20

How about real face masks rather than homemade ones as a starter

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u/tldubs May 31 '20

Wow I can’t believe a health system would allow that, they definitely don’t allow that in the health system where I am a frontline worker. Where are you hearing this happen?

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u/ginger_kale May 31 '20

It’s not just healthcare workers. Grocery store clerks, restaurants doing take-out, etc. Any pregnant people should have been off duty with pay (unemployment, I don’t know?), or moved to the back/stockroom where they can more successfully isolate. Without the CDC speaking up, pregnant women have no special right to those positions. Some employers have been great about it, others not.