> Despite being surrounded by health officials in her admin role for the NHS, the 28-year-old couldn’t understand why there had been the “sudden shift” in official advice during the first months of the vaccine rollout.
>”It’s a complicated message,” she said. “The message ‘don’t get vaccinated because we haven’t got any information’ is very subtly different from ‘don’t get vaccinated because it’s not safe’. You may think, ‘I can’t get vaccinated because I’m pregnant, it must not be safe’. Whereas actually we don’t yet have enough information.”
How are you working in the NHS if you can’t grasp this?
Why is being more cautious with pregnant women being criticised?
I know a reasonable handful of women (and their partners) who didn’t get vaccinated right away because they were pregnant or trying to get pregnant at the time, some of whom went on to catch covid quite badly (but thankfully recovered).
NHS midwives were advising women against it and understandably so since there was no data
The COVID response had a “old people are precious, fuck young people” mentality from the very beginning.
That a group of people who have a top end age cut off by their nature were disregarded should surprise nobody.
Nobody gave a fuck about people under 50.
I know a few people who were actively discouraged by midwifes from getting it. And not just being told that there is not enough info so they might want to be cautious..actively told not to get the shot several times. Some of them went on to get Covid towards the end of their pregnancy of course.
….. Along with everyone else that isn’t in the 0.4 (or whatever it is) % of people that wont get a cold and be absolutely fine.
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> Despite being surrounded by health officials in her admin role for the NHS, the 28-year-old couldn’t understand why there had been the “sudden shift” in official advice during the first months of the vaccine rollout.
>”It’s a complicated message,” she said. “The message ‘don’t get vaccinated because we haven’t got any information’ is very subtly different from ‘don’t get vaccinated because it’s not safe’. You may think, ‘I can’t get vaccinated because I’m pregnant, it must not be safe’. Whereas actually we don’t yet have enough information.”
How are you working in the NHS if you can’t grasp this?
Why is being more cautious with pregnant women being criticised?
I know a reasonable handful of women (and their partners) who didn’t get vaccinated right away because they were pregnant or trying to get pregnant at the time, some of whom went on to catch covid quite badly (but thankfully recovered).
NHS midwives were advising women against it and understandably so since there was no data
The COVID response had a “old people are precious, fuck young people” mentality from the very beginning.
That a group of people who have a top end age cut off by their nature were disregarded should surprise nobody.
Nobody gave a fuck about people under 50.
I know a few people who were actively discouraged by midwifes from getting it. And not just being told that there is not enough info so they might want to be cautious..actively told not to get the shot several times. Some of them went on to get Covid towards the end of their pregnancy of course.
….. Along with everyone else that isn’t in the 0.4 (or whatever it is) % of people that wont get a cold and be absolutely fine.