The resurgence of whooping cough poses a significant risk, with 8 babies in the UK already deceased and thousands ill. Lack of maternal vaccination exacerbates ethnic and socioeconomic disparities. Urgent calls to increase vaccination rates to protect newborns.
Maternal RSV vaccination carries a warning for the shot triggering premature delivery and the parents ending up with a neonate with the all the complications of prematurity including neurological damage. Maternal vaccination not worth the risks. Most women decline RSV… https://t.co/pQysYFug8V https://t.co/tIroaO9aZ7
🚨🚨🚨This article is nothing more than a SHAMELESS push to vaccinate pregnant women with the #RSVVaccine (and to a lesser extent, the COVID 💉💉) https://t.co/yhq7GjKrEk From 12/23
The UK is experiencing a sharp increase in rates of whooping cough (pertussis). We urgently need to increase maternal vaccination rates and protect newborns who are too young to be vaccinated, say @MohammadRazai and colleagues https://t.co/p9k36CZ7sq
We’re just over halfway through the year and 8 babies in the UK have died of whooping cough, with thousands more sickened. This is preventable. Worldwide, that number is over 100,000. Those without access to vaccines lose their babies to preventable disease in staggering numbers… https://t.co/1pHvf3927s
As we navigate the resurgence of whooping cough, the stakes are high. The decline in maternal vaccination rates jeopardises the health of the most vulnerable infants and exacerbates ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities, say @MohammadRazai and colleagues https://t.co/p9k36CZ7sq