This week I was reading about a pregnant woman with COVID who had an emergency C-section and then died three days later of kidney failure. They didn't say how far along in the pregnancy she was, but from the picture the baby was near term. Then today I was reading that remdesivir, used for treating COVID patients in hospitals, causes kidney failure, and I am very much wondering if that is what happened in that woman's case.
A quick web search yields mixed results on how bad remdesivir actually is for kidneys, and I don't know if she was prescribed it or not.
Also, the biggest cause of death for pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S. up through 2019 was actually homicide. I'm not sure how COVID compares, but it looks to be about the same order of magnitude.
[Edit: Homicide rate for pregnant/postpartum United States 3.62 per 100,000; 3.61 million births United States 2020; maternal COVID deaths per month in United States August 2021 was 22--a new record at that time. So 3.61 million(3.62/100,000) versus (maybe 15 COVID deaths per month average)(12 months), or about 131 versus about 180.]
Article from 10/8/2021:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211008/covids-awful-toll-during-pregnancy
As usual, I could be wrong.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
