North Carolina woman dies of COVID-19 weeks after giving birth to ‘miracle baby’

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Charlotte’s wife who gave birth to her child while unconscious and on a ventilator has died, her family say.

“(She) fought and fought for her daughter, whom she never met,” family members told local ABC affiliate the WSOC.

Vicky Goodson was a cafeteria worker at an elementary school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District. According to her family, she has taken many precautions against COVID-19, including wearing a mask indoors.

But she was reluctant to get the vaccine while she was pregnant.

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Then, on September 3, she began to have difficulty breathing and had to be admitted to the hospital.

A few days later, doctors performed an emergency Caesarean section while Goodson was unconscious. Her baby spent two weeks in the NICU before returning home with relatives who will now have to tell her stories about the mother she will never meet.

Family members are hoping Goodson’s story will encourage other expectant mothers to get the vaccine.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an urgent warning in September after new data showed more than 125,000 pregnant people tested positive for COVID-19, including 22,000 of those cases resulting in hospitalization and 161 d ‘between them ended in death.

In August alone, 22 pregnant women died from COVID-19, according to the CDC. Additionally, in surviving mothers, COVID-19 has also been linked to premature birth, stillbirth, and newborn babies arriving with COVID-19 and needing to be admitted to intensive care.

The COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective for pregnant women.