Alone Again, Unnaturally

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Professor Fergal Malone (above), Master of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, said If vaccination rates could rise it would be possible to ease restrictions.

This morning.

The Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin has defended its continuing restrictions around partner visits.

Via Independent.ie:

The Rotunda hospital said in a recent survey of inpatients showed that only 39pc were fully vaccinated, and only 41 pc of partners.

A statement said: “Therefore, with 60% of our patients and their partners not fully being vaccinated, this represents a very serious risk and a very different setting to that seen in other general hospitals and the wider community. Covid-19 still poses a serious risk to our patients, their babies, and their partners.”

The hospital said due to this, its patients are “more likely to be unvaccinated, and less likely to be able to physically distance while in the Hospital, they are also disproportionately more likely to be affected by Covid-19 infection.”

Meanwhile….

…via RTÉ:

The Master of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital has said restrictions at the hospital could be loosened if there was a higher uptake of Covid-19 vaccinations among patients and visitors.

Professor Fergal Malone urged pregnant women and their partners to get the vaccine, saying the high vaccination uptake in the general population is not reflected in maternity hospitals.

If vaccination rates could rise, he said, then it would be possible to ease restrictions.

Low Covid vaccination rate among pregnant women and partners behind ongoing restrictions, Rotunda Maternity Hospital says (Independent.ie)

Rotunda Master urges vaccination uptake to ease maternity restrictions (RTÉ)

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16 thoughts on “Alone Again, Unnaturally

  1. paval

    I can accept his argument up to a point, but why not offer a facility whereby fully vaccinated mothers/partners can attend or require them to present negative PCR test etc.? The current regime seems pointlessly cruel when alternatives options are there.

  2. freewheeling

    So is he’s noticing pregnant mothers are proving more vaccine hesitant is he? Could it be because mothers are prudentially more concerned about their baby’s health from an experimental trial therapy than he is about so-called vaccine uptake?
    And why is he insisting on greater vaccine uptake (in mothers *and* partners) before ease of restrictions anyway, when these “vaccines” are known to do little to prevent infection and transmission?
    More not-so-soft coercion from the medical establishment.

  3. LizardKing

    Why can’t they can just check for Covid vaccine passports like the Pubs do ? They have a security desk which already checked and stopped people from going into the main hospital areas. Surely they should be able to do it there. We were promised vaccine benefits but seems to not apply to women or partners .. shameful

  4. alickdouglas

    This approach makes no sense whatsoever to me. How about insisting on pertussis vaccination of parents-to-be and close contacts of newborn (for example, grandparents). No interest in ensuring >60% uptake of that? How about ensuring birth doses of HBV vaccine in children born to parents HBV+? Or improved uptake of rotavirus vaccine? There are decades-long databases that demonstrate that these measures prevent deaths and misery for newborns and their families, but uptake in Ireland is pathetic. Evidence based decision making remains absent in Ireland, clearly.

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      herself had the rotavirus vax at 2 and 4 months, I think it’s standard now,
      you are given a covid test before admission for an overnight stay ( to déterminer which ward you are on I imagine ),
      I believe part of the issue is that staff prefer less visitors, it’s made their jobs much easier.

      1. Micko

        “ it’s made their jobs much easier.”

        I get the impression that this is true for most civil servants.

  5. E'Matty

    It appears we cannot eradicate this virus like was done with small pox, as SARS-COV2 can have animal reservoirs (which small pox didn’t), and so even if we vaccinate every single person on the planet, animal reservoirs will enable new variants to emerge. Given Israel’s experience with vaccine effectiveness waning already and boosters (often 3rd shots) are being required, what is the path out of this crisis State of living? It would become naturally endemic so with waning vaccines, is everybody expected to receive boosters each year (Or every 6 months) to maintain their ‘vaccine protection’? What is the end game here?

  6. Lurch

    This is such BS from the Rotunda.
    People in their 20’s/30’s are only getting their second vaccines now. When was this “recent survey” ? today? yesterday? last April?
    …. and in any case they don’t ask for vaccine certs. they just have their policy and that’s it. No regard for the particular corcumstances of the mother/baby/ partner. Computer just says no.
    Noone is asking for a “free for all” but partners being present for miscarriages or pre-labour is essential and it is beyond inhumane that this is still not permitted.

  7. K. Cavan

    They’ll stick to their ludicrous narrative, no matter what. The next phase will be pointing out how useful lockdowns have been in preventing the fake Climate Emergency, about which I’ve noticed the media are ramping up their ignorant, hysterical, gibberish recently.
    Having established the gullibility of the average citizen, with The Covid Hoax, they know they can just say anything & the sheep will believe it. Before The Hoax, people were mostly ignoring their Climate bullcrap but the Herd is spooked now.
    Yee-haw! Round ’em up!

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