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'Striking' number of pregnant women requiring ICU care due to Covid

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Twenty pregnant or postpartum women have needed intensive care treatment for Covid-19 since the end of June, according to a leading obstetrician.

The vast majority of these women were unvaccinated, according to the chair of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr Cliona Murphy, who also works at the Coombe Maternity Hospital, described the number as "striking". Speaking on RTÉ's News at One she said this weekend alone had seen three women from maternity hospitals in Dublin city moved to general hospitals for ventilation and ICU care. "That has given us a bit of shock," she said.

From November 2020 up until June of this year, 22 women who were pregnant or had very recently given birth needed ICU care "so to have 20 in four

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