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The Washington Post was ridiculed for referring to pregnant women as “pregnant persons” in an article published Thursday.
The article is titled, “Pregnant people at significantly higher risk of COVID-19 breakthrough, study shows” and reports on a new study that looked at whether certain comorbidities could affect a vaccinated individual’s risk of contracting COVID-19, also known as breakthrough cases. .
Journalists Amy Goldstein and Dan Keating use the term “pregnant person” throughout the article.
“Pregnant people vaccinated against the coronavirus are almost twice as likely to get COVID-19 as those who are not pregnant, according to a new study that offers the broadest evidence to date on the likelihood of infection among vaccinated patients with different medical conditions. , they wrote.
The researchers measured risk by analyzing the records of partners of fully vaccinated patients from the same part of the country. In each pair, one patient had the condition being measured, and the other did not. Patients were not matched by age, and pregnant persons could be matched in the analysis with either men or women.
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The term woman appears once in the article to describe how the research was conducted.
“The researchers measured risk by analyzing the records of partners of fully vaccinated patients from the same part of the country. In each pair, one patient had the condition being measured, and the other did not. Age, and pregnant persons could be matched in the analysis with men or women,” the article said.
The Post was ridiculed on social media for referring to pregnant women as “pregnant people.”
“Habibi Bro.” podcast co-host Siraj Hashmi tweeted “happy last day of women’s history month.”
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“They’re called ‘women’, you idiots,” wrote conservative radio host Dana Loesch.
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Bablyon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted, “Not all women get pregnant, but all pregnant people are women.”
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky also said the same thing mocked when he used the term “pregnant person” to recommend that women receive the coronavirus vaccine.
“Rising cases, vaccine hesitancy and increased risk of severe illness for pregnant people make vaccination against #COVID19 more urgent than ever. Read why @CDCgov recommends that pregnant people should be vaccinated against COVID-19,” Walensky tweeted in August. 2021, with a link to the CDC website.
Washington Post covered CDC guidance at the time also used the term “pregnant person.”
Cortney O’Brien of Fox News contributed to this report.
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