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Canceled checkups, closed vaccination clinics, hospitals turned to virus centers. Pregnant women in China are being left behind during an epidemic. W/ @wywapple and @caocli https://nyti.ms/2T712vy 1/7
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Across China, maternity specialists have been pulled from their duties and shipped off to crisis centers. Nearly two thousand hospitals have been turned into coronavirus centers. Smaller hospitals offering obstetrics services are temporarily closed because of staff shortages 2/7
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When checkups aren’t canceled there are fewer doctors on hand. Women fear exposing themselves to the virus and for many, like Vigor Liu, the wait is the hardest part. She sat for 3 hours in a DIY hazmat to see a doctor. The only advice he had: stop reading the news 3/7
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Here’s a picture (left) of her husband who accompanied her for moral support. He used saran wrap to seal off his makeshift goggles. And a picture (right) of another woman checking in at the hospital. 4/7pic.twitter.com/HyRhTzCDhF
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Jane Huang is pregnant in Wuhan, the heart of the epidemic. She doesn't have a doctor and until a group of volunteers stepped in, she had no options. Local hospitals are shut and there is no public transport. "I worry everyday about whether my child will die in my belly." 5/7pic.twitter.com/rtZeAiDB4c
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New parents also fret as entire cities and provinces have shut down vaccination clinics. They do mental calculations on how long their new borns can go without getting certain shots. 6/7
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Women who have given birth in recent weeks offer little consolation. Zhang Chong was left largely on her own after a C-section w. just two nurses to a ward of 40 moms and babies. In pain and with no help or painkillers, she described “100 times a day that I felt like crying.” 7/7
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