Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/UzKWftF0UAE   Pregnant women infected with the Delta variant suffer more severe infections and worse pregnancy outcomes than when infected with the original strain or the alpha British variant.  British pediatricians and obstetricians reviewed the records of 3371 pregnant women.   Pregnant women infected and admitted to the hospital  during the current delta-predominant period were 80% more likely to require respiratory support compared with pregnant women admitted during the initial strain predominance and 35% more likely to require it compared with those admitted with the alpha variant.  No fully vaccinated pregnant women were admitted during the data collection period of this study.   The bottom line: delta is bad news and vaccination helps.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.21261000v1.full.pdf+html   #CoVid #pregnancy #delta #alpha #ventilators