A 32-year-old pregnant Alabama nurse and her unborn child died of COVID-19 after the woman refused to be vaccinated against the virus, according to a report.
Haley Mulkey Richardson worked in the delivery unit at a Pensacola hospital and contracted COVID-19 about three weeks before her death Friday, according to Al.com.
Richardson, who lived outside Mobile, was taken to an ICU after symptoms deteriorated, according to the report.
“After about three or four days in the hospital, the [obstetrician] he told her he would lose the baby, “family friend Jason Whatley said.” And it kept getting worse and worse. “
“At some point, they basically told him that we should start treating you like you don’t have a child. We have to do what we can for you, because the baby will happen anyway. “
Julie Mulkey, Richardson’s mother, said her daughter refused to get vaccinated even though the hospital where she worked required it, according to the media. Richardson was reportedly worried because it would cause anaphylactic reactions.
“Haley had had anaphylaxis reactions in the past,” Mulkey said. “That’s why, for that reason, she felt it wasn’t safe for her.
“And then, of course, with all the negative reports that have come out, what should I believe about what the vaccine for reproduction would do?”
The CDC has urged all pregnant women to get vaccinated, including pregnant women who are not at increased risk for serious illness and pregnancy complications, such as miscarriage and stillbirths.
A local doctor said at the outset that reports linking COVID-19 vaccines to infertility have no basis.
“The claims linking COVID-19 vaccines to infertility are unfounded and have no scientific evidence to support them,” said Dr. Karen Leigh, president of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Huntsville.
Alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the United States, with less than 37 percent of the population fully inoculated with COVID-19, as it faces an average of more than 4,000 new cases a day, according to Johns University Hopkins.
Mulkey and his other daughter are now asking other pregnant women in Alabama to punch them as the state’s ICUs continue to overflow, according to the report.
“Since her illness, we have found that this affects many, many pregnant women who are between 26 and 27 weeks pregnant,” she said. “And the baby died two days before 27 weeks had passed. Therefore, I understand that there are many women at the UAB in the same way ”.
Richardson, who left behind a daughter and her husband Jordan, posted a final Facebook post on Aug. 9, before a fan was put on her.
“Here in the dark, in the wee hours of the morning, it’s so easy to pretend that all of this was just a nightmare or that I’m here in that hospital bed because of my own problems with Covid,” Richardson wrote. . “Not because anything was wrong with my sweet little girl whom I thought I would protect in my womb.”