LOS ANGELES - The United Kingdom‘s National Health Service (NHS) is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after new data shows that nearly 20% of the nation’s most critically ill COVID-19 patients are pregnant women who have not yet been immunized."Since July, one in five COVID patients receiving treatment through a special lung-bypass machine were expectant mums who have not had their first jab," the NHS wrote in a report published on Monday.
The NHS said that almost a third of female patients between the ages of 16 and 49 who undergo a therapy called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation — used for COVID-19 patients whose lungs have undergone such severe trauma that a ventilator no longer works to maintain oxygen levels — are.