Hestkuk@sh.itjust.workstoHealth - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•Most pregnant women and unborn babies who contract bird flu will die, study findsEnglish
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11 hours agoAustralian doctor conducts review study, tangentially related to current global disease outbreak, in order to advocate for her desire to conduct medical experiments on pregnant women
This is clearly about American politics, and a strong indictment of the Republican Party.
This is the point of the study, the point of the article, the interest being advocated here by Dr Rachael Purcell. Conducting vaccine trials on pregnant women.
There are very good reasons why this is not done. Firstly, the fetus could be harmed or killed. Secondly, the data from pregnant women is useless for assessing safety and efficacy in anyone other than a pregnant woman. As the vast majority of the population are not pregnant women, it is unnecessarily hazardous and a waste of limited resources to test a vaccine on pregnant women first. That can come later, once you’ve developed a useful vaccine and deployed it widely, reducing the risk of infection of everyone in a society, including pregnant women.