I was amazed that we were even going to contemplate giving this to a pregnant woman because we never give a pregnant woman, for very obvious reasons, anything new out of the gate.
There’s two drugs we should have remembered and learned by: diethylstilbestrol and thalidomide. Both had poor obstetric outcomes and were taken off the market with regards to use in pregnancy. And prior to 2020, if I had ever given a pregnant woman a new product or medication, that’s malpractice. And I was just amazed that this was going to be considered. But the way that they marketed it to us, meaning our governing body – ACOG – was that if a woman gets a respiratory infection and she’s pregnant, because of all the changes in her body during pregnancy, she’s going to get a lot sicker and could potentially die from this, as opposed to a non-pregnant person – female rather. And they’ve been using that tactic for years to get us to give our pregnant patients the influenza vaccine. And in 30 years, I’ve never had a pregnant woman die of the flu.
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