JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is exhorting pregnant women to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after another otherwise healthy young mother died of the disease.
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Osnat Ben-Shitrit was 32 years old and in the third trimester of pregnancy when she was hospitalized and died in Jerusalem this week; her baby also died after being delivered prematurely. Another 50 pregnant women are currently hospitalized in the country, some in serious condition.
Video from Ben-Shitrit’s funeral on Sunday shows several of her four older children crying over her body.
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Israeli health officials have been sounding the alarm on the risks of the new disease variants to pregnant women for weeks. But only about 30% of pregnant women have been vaccinated, lower than the overall vaccination rate for adults under 65.
One driver of the disparity could be misinformation about the new vaccines causing miscarriage or infertility, which is rampant on social media and have complicated the vaccine rollout in some Orthodox communities, where motherhood is central to women’s identities.
Ben-Shitrit’s brother told Kan, Israel’s public broadcasting network, that he had operated an anti-vaccination Facebook page before disabling it upon his sister’s death. The social network has said it is cracking down on vaccine misinformation.
In the new world of misinformation, you must wonder who decides what it is, because in the UK the official health ministry said that pregnant women should not vaccinate, till they know more about it. But I guess we should wait for an official press conference of the biggest doctors of our times the likes of Zuckerberg Dorsey Kornblue
First the article doesn’t say one iota if info on the lady or why she died. They want you to think she died FROM corona. However, the reports I read from A7 which is hardly anti this vaccine, said that she was afraid of going to the hospital. What did she die from? Nobody reports that. Same with the “50 other” pregnant mothers. Zero indication as to why they are hospitalized!
As for vaccining pregnant women or fertility issues:
• The owner of Pfizer is reported to have stated that pregnant women should NOT take the vaccine because we don’t know enough.
• The FDA on its website says clearly that there are 22 (!) serious side effects including
2. Convulsions,
12. Death
13. Pregnancy issues
And more.
Pregnant women should certainly NOT take a questionable vaccine which was NOT approved, it was only given an EUA.
There are reliable Covid treatments that they are quashing. Why?
Every American doctor says take the vaccine as for England I’ll check this out doesn’t seem correct
so basicly the other ppl who died last ifew weeks in israel died after getting the vaccine? correct?
Ugh Sam As I thought ugh is fake news GB recommends vaccination for pregnant women and nursing mothers
Stop lying it’s to easy to check fake news