Pregnant women ask, "Is it safe to get the COVID vaccine during pregnancy?" The short answer is YES, it's safer than getting COVID.

Over the past 10 months, I've chronicled the deaths and preterm labor of many pregnant women. @DrTsion is 27 wks pregnant and now vaccinated! https://twitter.com/DrTsion/status/1342113615323803648

Women get vaccines during pregnancy, such as the inactivated influenza and Tdap.

"What are the long-term effects of the COVID vaccine?" say people, forgetting to ask the other question, "What are the long-term effects of COVID infection during pregnancy to themselves & baby?"

Pregnant women with COVID19 face a 70% increased risk of death, when compared to non-pregnant women who were symptomatic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/health/Covid-pregnancy-health-risks.html

29 year-old pregnant Allie Guidry was 20 weeks pregnant when she died from COVID at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Doctors delivered her baby Madaline while performing CPR. https://theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_dc25050a-b7e6-11ea-b91a-7fe6381566da.html

Los Angeles, CA
Erika Becerra, 33, was 8 months pregnant when diagnosed with COVID in Nov. Her labor was induced Nov 15, but she was unable to hold her son, b/c she couldn't breathe. She was placed on a ventilator, where she cried before dying from COVID https://wbtv.com/2020/12/06/mother-gives-birth-healthy-baby-dies-covid-before-she-can-hold-him/

Ajoraica Parker, 31, from Gonzales, Louisiana was 7 mo pregnant with her 3rd child, when she began having chest pain from COVID and prematurely delivered her baby on a ventilator. The baby survived, but Ajoraica didn't.
https://wbrz.com/news/after-delivering-baby-gonzales-woman-dies-from-covid-19/

30 y.o. Andrea Circle Bear was 8.5 months pregnant and locked up for a drug charge in Texas. Unable to breathe, she was transferred to the hospital, placed on a ventilator w/ an emergent c-section, but later died from COVID. http://theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/coronavirus-andrea-circle-bear-federal-prison-death

Garfield Heights, Ohio
23 y.o. Sierra C. Germany-Warith was 30 weeks pregnant when she and her husband, who worked as a bus driver, became symptomatic from COVID. Sierra required an emergent c-section. The baby survived, but Sierra died. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/continuing-coverage/coronavirus/woman-dies-from-coronavirus-after-giving-birth

Gabby Manoz, 25, from Fresno California was so sick from COVID that she gave birth and remained on a ventilator for two weeks. Luckily she survived, but had to learn how to walk again

Celina, Ohio
7 mo pregnant nurse Megan Sites, 27, required ECMO & emergent c-section while on a ventilator. Her baby spent 75 days in NICU. "I have scars all over my body. I have scars right here on my neck from the ECMO machine.. [COVID] is very real." https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-baby-out-of-the-nicu-home-with-mom-who-gave-birth-on-a-ventilator-while-fighting-covid-19/33353316#

Aurora Duran, 35, from Minneapolis, mother of 3, 7 months pregnant died from COVID. She had an emergent c-section at 30 weeks, the baby survived, but mom never improved on the ventilator. https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8544075/Covid-19-mother-gave-birth-ventilator-dies-never-having-met-newborn-daughter.html

30 wks pregnant Lolita Davis went to Roseland Community Hospital in Illinois on Mother's Day, then returned 5 days later. In the waiting room she went into cardiac arrest from COVID. She and the baby both died. She leaves behind 3 children.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/26/family-of-pregnant-mother-who-died-after-contracting-covid-19-files-suit-accuses-roseland-community-hospital-of-neglect/

Brevard Co, Florida
Brittany Hartwell, surgical tech took every precaution, but unfortunately still gov COVID while pregnant. Her baby Rowan was born 13wks premature with "bilateral brain bleed and very sick. Nobody thought she was going to make it" https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2020/08/07/pregnant-mother-gets-covid-19--delivers-baby-early

Hesperia, Southern California.
The nameless. A 32 y.o. pregnant woman died from the COVID. “Her child survived, has tested negative for COVID-19, and is doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center”
https://kron4.com/news/california/2nd-pregnant-woman-in-california-dies-from-covid-19/

Dayton, Ohio
35 wks pregnant Tawauna Averette, 42, nurse at Kettering Health died of COVID on 12/8. Her baby girl was delivered emergently and survived. She tried so hard to get home to her husband and 7 children. h/t: @CTZebra http://google.com/amp/s/www.whio.com/news/local/local-nurse-dies-covid-19-leaves-behind-7-children-friends-co-workers-say/5OSMQXHADZDKXHVTGZZRX7BJKU/%3foutputType=amp

4 mo pregnant, Kiara Anderson-McDade, 25, Chicago RN was found by her husband slumped over, unresponsive in a chair w/blue lips & hands. He tried CPR but she died from COVID. Afterwards he destroyed the house & broke down "I've never hurt like that before" https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/toll-of-coronavirus-reflections-on-loss/Content?oid=82174765

Huntington, WV
36 wks pregnant Sharon "Renee" Carroll, 44 y.o. occupational therapist contracted COVID and required an emergency c-section. She loved her baby Anniston for 8 months, but was never able to meet her child. h/t: @CTZebra
https://herald-dispatch.com/news/community-rallies-to-help-newborn-family-in-wake-of-covid-19-death/article_05ca6e61-aebc-5973-8759-3b6d61b51a53.html

Brooklyn, NYC
30 wks pregnant Sylvia Leroy, Brookdale Nurse, suffered a COVID induced cardiac arrest 4/12. She has anoxic brain injury and after months of rehab is only able to answer yes/no questions with a card. Her baby, Esther, survived. h/t: @CTZebra https://gofundme.com/f/help-a-front-line-nurse-and-baby-get-proper-care?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR1Ns3DghEnV9mv3nUtMLfL3r17wblSvmJilvPQXU_pu4QUAcTpWRi2iago#healthcareheroes

Baldwin Park, California
2 months pregnant Michelle “Cindy” Zepeda, 39 y.o. Appointment Clerk at Kaiser Baldwin Park call center died from COVID on 7/8. Always fun and friendly, she leaves behind a daughter. h/t: @CTZebra @seiu_uhw https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-covina-ca/michelle-zepeda-9269168

34 wks pregnant Jessica Rowlett, 35 y.o. dental hygienist in Tennessee fell sick to COVID19 prompting an emergent c-section. If she was not placed on ECMO then she would have died; luckily she was at a hospital that had ECMO. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/mom-died-due-covid-19-meets-newborn-son-71771513

There are 100s, if not 1000s of stories of pregnant women having complications from COVID19 during pregnancy, but only a small percentage have made it to the news. I recommend pregnant women get vaccinated against COVID. Stay safe!

Los Angeles, CA
Vanessa Cardenas Gonzalez, 33, gave birth to beautiful baby girl named Heaven, but b/c Vanessa was +COVID her baby was whisked away. Following delivery, Vanessa had a heart attack & died on life support 12/14 never once holding her newborn
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mom-covid-19-delivers-baby-235644082.html