{"id":9574,"date":"2025-05-28T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:43:08","slug":"doctors-fear-devastating-consequences-for-pregnant-people-after-rfk-jr-order-on-covid-19-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/28\/doctors-fear-devastating-consequences-for-pregnant-people-after-rfk-jr-order-on-covid-19-boosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors fear \u2018devastating consequences\u2019 for pregnant people after RFK Jr order on Covid-19 boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/28\/pregnant-people-rfk-jr-covid-vaccines\">The Guardian<\/a> Advocates for pregnant people said they are alarmed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;unprecedented and unilateral decision to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/27\/rfk-jr-covid-vaccine-kids-pregnant-women\">remove Covid-19 booster shots<\/a>&nbsp;from the recommended immunization schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A vaccine\u2019s inclusion on the schedule is important for patient access, because many private health insurance plans determine which vaccines to cover based on the schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCovid-19\u2019s impact on pregnancy is deeply personal to me,\u201d said Dr Amanda Williams, interim chief medical officer at March of Dimes, a non-profit focused on the health of mothers and babies, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the height of the pandemic, I cared for a healthy patient who was 32 weeks pregnant and tragically died from Covid-19 despite state-of-the-art medical care. One of her last words was that she wished she had taken the vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/28\/pregnant-people-rfk-jr-covid-vaccines\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian Advocates for pregnant people said they are alarmed by&nbsp;Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s&nbsp;unprecedented and unilateral decision to&nbsp;remove Covid-19 booster shots&nbsp;from the recommended immunization schedule. A vaccine\u2019s inclusion on the schedule is important for patient access, because many private health insurance plans determine which vaccines to cover based on the schedule. \u201cCovid-19\u2019s impact on pregnancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9575,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions\/9575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}