CORONAVIRUS

Texas doctors, seeing unprecedented numbers of pregnant patients with COVID-19, urge pregnant people to get vaccinated

Pregnant women are getting vaccinated at lower rates than the general population. “This variant is much more aggressive, [and] pregnant women are getting sicker much faster,” one doctor says.

By Allyson Waller, The Texas Tribune
Posted 9/16/21

Lauren Lewis originally mistook the dry cough for allergies.

In early November 2020, she attended an outdoor concert with her mother and younger daughter in Dallas, a couple of days after …

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