WPLG Local 10
- Florida doctors are pleading for pregnant women to go get vaccinated against COVID-19.
- "If for no other reason, if you love that baby, please go get vaccinated," local ICU Dr. Sunil Kumar said.
- Data show that "if the mom is vaccinated the antibodies can be transmitted over to the baby," he said.
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Florida doctors are pleading for pregnant women to go get vaccinated against COVID-19 as coronavirus cases continue to surge across the US.
Data show that "if the mom is vaccinated the antibodies can be transmitted over to the baby," Broward Health Medical Center ICU Dr. Sunil Kumar said during a press conference Tuesday. He pleaded to unvaccinated expectant mothers: "If for no other reason, if you love that baby, please go get vaccinated."
Kumar was among a group of Florida healthcare workers who urged pregnant women to get the jab, WPLG Local 10 reported.
Recently, an unvaccinated woman died due to complications with COVID-19 after she gave birth to a baby boy, crushing Kumar and Dr. Adolfo Gonzalez-Garcia, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Broward Health Medical Center, according to the news outlet.
"This baby will never know his mother and this woman never saw her child and that's so, so sad and it should never happen," Gonzalez-Garcia said at the press conference.
The doctors believe the mother would still be alive if she had been inoculated against COVID-19.
Earlier this month, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also urged that pregnant women get the coronavirus vaccine, saying "it has never been more urgent."
Additionally, a recent study has shown that pregnant people with COVID-19 have far higher rates of adverse birth outcomes compared to healthy pregnant patients.