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Demovictory9

(32,454 posts)
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 09:58 AM Aug 2021

Unvaccinated Pregnant Nurse and Unborn Child Die of COVID in Alabama

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/unvaccinated-pregnant-nurse-and-unborn-child-die-of-covid-in-alabama/ar-AANGazn?ocid=msedgntp

An Alabama family is in mourning after an unvaccinated mother died of COVID-19 after she lost her unborn child to the same disease.

Nurse Haley Mulkey Richardson, 32, was registered at the labor and delivery unit at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, according to Alabama.com.

Richardson, who lived in Theodore with her husband Jordan and young daughter Katie, contracted COVID-19 some three weeks before she died, in late July or early August, a friend—Jason Whatley—told the outlet.

The mother-of-one was not vaccinated against the virus as she was afraid of suffering potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reactions and after she heard unfounded claims the jab could affect fertility.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/unvaccinated-pregnant-nurse-and-unborn-child-die-of-covid-in-alabama/ar-AANGazn?ocid=msedgntp
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Unvaccinated Pregnant Nurse and Unborn Child Die of COVID in Alabama (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2021 OP
OMG ... Lovie777 Aug 2021 #1
this is where my empathy meter takes a dive... agingdem Aug 2021 #2
But to be a nurse Karma13612 Aug 2021 #3
So many stories... Hugin Aug 2021 #4
There is no basis for it either. LisaL Aug 2021 #6
That's what bothers me... Hugin Aug 2021 #8
Some genius came up with a baseless speculation that spike protein is going to attack a human LisaL Aug 2021 #9
There is a pattern emerging of unvaxxed pregnant women on ventilators mucifer Aug 2021 #5
Could have been vaccinated but ... Oh well DenaliDemocrat Aug 2021 #7
Do stupid things... orwell Aug 2021 #10
Darwin was right. NurseJackie Aug 2021 #11

Karma13612

(4,552 posts)
3. But to be a nurse
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:01 AM
Aug 2021

She most likely had to have gotten her series of Hepatitis shots, along with keeping current on DTAP, flu, etc.

WTH is wrong with the medical community not wanting to get the COVID vaccine?

Just one more thing going on in this country that no longer makes any sense. And it’s making me crazy.

And sad.
And scared.

Hugin

(33,140 posts)
4. So many stories...
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:15 AM
Aug 2021

Of her published concerns... As a Nurse she should have been well aware there are very few reported anaphylactic events with these vaccines. Also, the vaccine administering sites are all well equipped to deal with anything of that nature. I take that as a throwaway.

The fertility 'concern' does bother me, though. This seems to be pushed by the male dominated American Taliban who only value women for their reproductive capacity and nothing else. These young women are well aware of this and also being cast aside in a Handmaiden's Tale manner should they be rendered infertile by accident or illness.

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
6. There is no basis for it either.
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:37 AM
Aug 2021

Nothing indicates that covid vaccines affect fertility in any way.

Hugin

(33,140 posts)
8. That's what bothers me...
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:48 AM
Aug 2021

Is it an extension of the HPV evangelical hooplah of a decade ago?

How to overcome a lifetime of immersion with the truth.

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
9. Some genius came up with a baseless speculation that spike protein is going to attack a human
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:50 AM
Aug 2021

egg.
It's a completely baseless speculation, there is no evidence for anything like this actually happening.

mucifer

(23,542 posts)
5. There is a pattern emerging of unvaxxed pregnant women on ventilators
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 10:17 AM
Aug 2021

It's so scary.

I understand why a year ago they were waiting on more info. Plus the original variant didn't seem to attack pregnant women the way the delta is now.

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