“We have a lot of serious cases of pregnant women with coronavirus, while in the first phase we did not have it. “They have to come in for mechanical ventilation, and we are forced to terminate the pregnancies so that we can have the child regardless of the month,” Apostolos Athanasiadis, obstetrician-gynecologist at Ippokratio and president of gynecologists in Northern Greece, told SKAI.
“The life of a woman is more important than that of a child,” Apostolos Athanasiadis clarified about the serious incidents during pregnancy.
“All pregnant women should be vaccinated,” she said. “Pregnant women, regardless of the month, should be vaccinated with the booster dose, at the same time as the flu and pertussis vaccines. A pregnant woman is 3 times more likely than a non-pregnant woman of the same age to be 3 times more likely to get an ICU, 3 times more likely to be intubated and 2 times more likely to die.
The risk factors for pregnant women, explained Mr. Athanasiadis, are obesity, the risk increases two more times, ie 5 times higher, age over 40 years, diabetes mellitus and so on.
He clarified, however, that when the mother becomes ill, the child does not get sick in a “magical way”, as it seems that the placenta does not allow the virus to pass, although the placenta itself shows lesions.
The testimony
Speaking about Parthena Koutmeridou, Mr. Athanasiadis revealed that “A few days ago, her best man called me (also pregnant) … ‘I know you told me to get vaccinated, but I want you to tell me what my risks are, I have an aspirin allergy and I’m telling her to go get vaccinated’ . Before she ended up (Koutmeridou) was trying to get a push from me not to be vaccinated. And it was in the 7th month. She supposedly called me to persuade her to get vaccinated, while we had said it two more times. Anyone who is scared tries to find any weapon… At the end I hung up the phone: ‘it’s not possible, your girlfriend is in a very bad condition what do you want me to say?’ »
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