Podcast: Encouraging COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people
The COVID-19 virus can be especially dangerous for women during pregnancy. In this Advancing Health podcast Kathy Cummings, director of communications for AHA’s Center for Health Innovation, talks with Rachel Humphrey, M.D., director of AdventHealth for Women’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine, about why pregnant people are more prone to serious infections and what they can do to protect themselves and their babies.
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