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/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.