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Pancreatitis after COVID-19 vaccines

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A 24-year-old South-Asian female received  er first dose of the Pfizer vaccine  at 30 weeks of gestation. One week later she presented with severe epigastric pain radiating to the back and worsening on lying supine, associated with nausea and vomiting. She was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis with a serum lipase level of 4376 U/L and an ultrasound showing features of pancreatitis. The patient had a spontaneous vaginal delivery, and the baby was shifted to the neonatal intensive care unit in a stable condition. A computed tomography scan postpartum (day 2) demonstrated acute interstitial edematous pancreatitis. The patient was managed conservatively in the intensive care unit and discharged home in a stable condition. A 28-year old previously healthy woman   experienced  abdominal pain three days after the injection of the second dose of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. She presented at the emergency department but all the tests and imaging were normal and she was di...

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness During Pregnancy

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In an earlier study , the scientists found that though pregnant and lactating people made fewer protective antibodies after the first vaccine dose than a control group, the difference disappeared after the second dose. A new study shows that even after two or three doses, p regnant people are nearly twice as likely to get covid-19 as those who are not pregnant . The analysis, based on Epic medical records of nearly 14 million U.S. patients since coronavirus immunization became available (Jan.2021- Jan.0222), found that pregnant people who are vaccinated have the greatest risk of developing covid among a dozen medical states, including being an organ transplant recipient and having cancer.   110,000 pregnant persons included in the study were 90% more likely to have been   infected   with coronavirus than the same number of people who were not pregnant. The next-highest risk was among organ transplant recipients (80%). Patients with compromised immune systems, had 60...

Baby dies after born bleeding from mouth, nose, less than 2 months after his mother receives her 2nd shot of covid vaccine

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A baby whose mother received her second  mRNA-1273  vaccine shot during her last trimester of pregnancy,  1 months and 23 days before his birth,  was born bleeding from his mouth and nose, and died the day after his birth, according to a recent report to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System from a foreign “regulatory authority.”  The baby boy was born on the morning of October 6, 2021, after his mother received two experimental mRNA Moderna shots on July 19 and August 13. He was expected on October 15 but was delivered weighing 2,800 grams (just over six pounds, two ounces) in hospital after a labor marked by unstable fetal heartbeat. REFERENCE VAERS Report #1879991 See also Baby of ‘fully vaccinated’ mom dies after born bleeding from mouth, nose: VAERS report | marychocomog (wordpress.com) Fully Vaccinated Mother Gives Birth To Baby Bleeding From Nose and Mouth. Newborn Dies Day Later – gospanews.net