More and more pregnant women in intensive care – Delta variant probably very dangerous for expectant mothers!


Only very late in September 2021, the Standing Commission on Vaccination (Stiko) in Germany had decided to also recommend the vaccination of pregnant women against Covid-19. But apparently many expectant mothers still try to get along without the vaccination. This has apparently fatal consequences due to the delta variant! Because more and more pregnant women have to be treated in intensive care units in hospitals.

Many unvaccinated and pregnant women are entering intensive care

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Recently, medical experts and the media had reported an increasing number of pregnant women in whom the Covid-19 infection has taken a severe course. In many cases, the infections are even severe enough to put the lives of the expectant mothers and their unborn children at risk. While the wild type of the coronavirus did not pose a major risk to pregnant women, this has changed significantly due to the dominant delta variant. Pregnant women seem to have become a special risk group for a severe course of Covid 19 disease. “We repeatedly see severe corona diseases in unvaccinated pregnant women and also in their newborn children,” confirms Prof. Sven Mahner, Director of the LMU Women’s Hospital in Munich. A large part of the women is unvaccinated, according to the physician.

That is why pregnant women belong to the risk group

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Study results from several countries show that pregnant women have long been one of the risk groups. Because in the course of pregnancy, the lung volume of women decreases due to the growth of the child. In addition, the woman’s own immune system reacts more weakly so as not to attack the developing baby in her own belly. This is the ideal condition for the virus to spread in the body of the woman. In addition, some women also have other risk factors such as increased age, obesity or previous illnesses. This increases the risk of a severe course again. According to an American study, the risk of unvaccinated pregnant women ending up in intensive care is a good 5 times higher than that of vaccinated pregnant women. In addition, pregnant women infected with Covid-19 are 50 percent more likely to develop complications during the course of pregnancy.

Last quarter of pregnancy is particularly risky

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Data from Germany of pregnant women also reveal some interesting findings. According to doctors, the risk continues to increase as the pregnancy progresses. For example, the risk of hospitalization is particularly high at 20 percent in the 30th week of pregnancy. Ten percent of women would then have to deliver their child prematurely due to the negative development of the disease. “If you get infected in the 30th week of pregnancy, you have the highest risk of having an intensive care stay because of Covid-19,” clarifies an expert in the matter. “You can see that the risk for a severe course is particularly increased in the second half of pregnancy. In other words, very clear appeal to be fully vaccinated before the 2nd half of pregnancy. Of course, it is best to enter pregnancy vaccinated,” the physician therefore recommends. We can only hope that as many pregnant women as possible will follow this advice. So far, more than 150 expectant mothers in Germany had to be treated intensively because of Covid-19.

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