Doctor urges pregnant women to get Covid jab amid 'surprising' surge in hospital cases

A consultant battling the pandemic on the frontline is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated saying there is a 'surprising' number of mums-to-be in hospital with the virus. Dr Richard Cree, an intensive care consultant at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, made the plea as the vaccine take-up for expectant women was not as high as it should be. Dr Cree, who has been blogging throughout the pandemic on the nomoresurgeons.com platform, wrote that one mum had to have an emergency caesarean before being put on a ventilator. He warned that pregnancy changes the immune system and increases the risk of serious conditions following many viral infections.