INVESTIGATION: Multiple New Yorkers who are pregnant or attempting to become pregnant report being discouraged by nurses from getting COVID-19 vaccines at city-run sites. Both the CDC and NYC health department recommend vaccination.
also found that women infected with COVID-19 within a month of giving birth were more likely to have a stillbirth or infant death.
According to Stephanie Guzman, a spokesperson for NYC Health + Hospitals, the questions on the intake form are not intended to discourage vaccination and that the Bathgate site uses “the same registration process on the same platform as every [NYC health department] vaccination site where we inquire about pregnancy and intention to become pregnant; always offering vaccines in either case.
“We have been trying very hard as a group, as OB/GYNs and as physicians, to make sure that women understand that the vaccine is safe in pregnancy and that it is recommended in pregnancy,” Shirazian said, noting that vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women is still an issue. Yet, another pregnant person who spoke to WNYC/Gothamist about getting vaccinated at a city-run site while pregnant said she faced unnecessary questioning. The New York City health departmentBut public school teacher KC Wright said when she went for her booster shot at NYC Health + Hospitals’ Gotham Health clinic in Brooklyn on December 22nd, she was asked a question that seemed odd to her.
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