emotion after the death of a 35-year-old pregnant woman in Luxembourg

This Tuesday, April 13, 2021, the Luxembourg newspaper The essential reported a very sad news. That of the death of Suellen Adan Silva Brotas, a Brazilian 35-year-old five months pregnant who succumbed to the coronavirus on the night of March 28 to 29, 2021 in Esch-sur-Alzette, a border town between Lorraine and Luxembourg. Two days earlier, she learned that she was positive for Covid-19. Suellen Adan Silva Brotas, who was expecting her third child, a little girl, has passed away “in her sleep. Her only symptoms were headache and cough. She was breathing normally, so the hospital said there was no need to bring her,” his sister-in-law, Rosy, testified to regional media. The future mother had at her side her husband, Claudinei Brotas. “The city of Esch provided administrative assistance and allowed Suellen to be buried near her family in Lallange. The Brazilian consulate, the CLAE and Omega90 associations, which support bereaved families, are also helping”, added the relative of the disappeared.

The importance of vaccination

This mourning is a reminder of how important the vaccination against Covid-19 is. Thus, since April 3, 2021, it has been extended to pregnant women from the second trimester, with or without comorbidity, as highlighted a note from the Directorate General of Health. They will be able to benefit from Moderna or Pfizer type vaccines. The High Authority of Health, in November 2020, reported that women “entering their third trimester of pregnancy and pregnant women with co-morbidities” are more likely to develop a severe form of Covid-19. A study, published on March 25, 2021, in theAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown the efficacy of messenger RNA vaccines (Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna) in pregnant and breastfeeding women. Reassuring news for the most skeptical.