animalcule
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I came across this thread on twitter:
View: https://twitter.com/LaurynWarnick/status/1432770268217454595
A newborn baby is in the NICU, intubated, while battling COVID and RSV. The mother says that she was vaxxed at 21 and 23 weeks pregnant, hoping that she'd pass her antibodies on to her newborn. She also says all of her caregivers were vaccinated as well. Question: Was this just extremely bad luck for this baby, or is it possible that vaxxing while pregnant harmed her newborn's immune system in some way?
From what I've read, newborns do get antibodies from Mom, but they also just have very robust immune systems regardless, which is why they tend not to get really any viruses when they're infants (unless they're compromised in some way), even if Mom never had that specific virus - I heard this from a pediatrician who explained this while sticking his thumb in an infants mouth, to the shock of the parents who were obviously concerned about germs on his hand. Even if the Mom hadn't been vaxxed, her newborn shouldn't have been at hardly any risk from COVID. And yet she WAS vaxxed, and her baby is now intubated. Bad luck? Something else? Possible effect from vaccination while pregnant?
View: https://twitter.com/LaurynWarnick/status/1432770268217454595
A newborn baby is in the NICU, intubated, while battling COVID and RSV. The mother says that she was vaxxed at 21 and 23 weeks pregnant, hoping that she'd pass her antibodies on to her newborn. She also says all of her caregivers were vaccinated as well. Question: Was this just extremely bad luck for this baby, or is it possible that vaxxing while pregnant harmed her newborn's immune system in some way?
From what I've read, newborns do get antibodies from Mom, but they also just have very robust immune systems regardless, which is why they tend not to get really any viruses when they're infants (unless they're compromised in some way), even if Mom never had that specific virus - I heard this from a pediatrician who explained this while sticking his thumb in an infants mouth, to the shock of the parents who were obviously concerned about germs on his hand. Even if the Mom hadn't been vaxxed, her newborn shouldn't have been at hardly any risk from COVID. And yet she WAS vaxxed, and her baby is now intubated. Bad luck? Something else? Possible effect from vaccination while pregnant?