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> To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
> To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got omicron in late December, post-covid complications nearly took her and the baby in late February, and she had to live in the hospital until she delivered in June.
The tricky thing with this though is that, what if there is an unknown side effect due to lack of research that could have hurt the baby (how many years of research have boosters had?), and she didn't experience that side effect but unwittingly chose a different evil?
- abathur 4y agoTo put the exclamation point on it, she went into respiratory distress, was within minutes of death and was saved by a week on ECMO. Until the vaccine kills more pregnant women than covid, it's not tricky. (Spoken, as before, as a selfish older brother who almost lost one of the few people who'll ever think I hung the stars.) I wrote a little about this @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208231
- ok_dad 4y ago
- dang 4y agoYou can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong or bad another comment is or you feel it is. You also don't need to post flamewar comments or name-calling attacks of this sort—it actually weakens the case you'd prefer to strengthen. A reply like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32132621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32132621 does the job vastly better. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoAd hominem attacks are banned here.
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