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There’s been a bit of reaction on the airwaves this morning in the UK to the news that one in six of the most critically ill NHS patients are unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid.
NHS England’s medical director of primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, told BBC Breakfast that pregnancy puts “quite a strain” on the heart and lungs and if pregnant women get Covid-19 then that “lays on pressure on an already pressurised system inside a pregnant women, and that’s why almost 20% of people with coronavirus who are having extra support on critical care are pregnant women who are unvaccinated.