Florida mom, 30, succumbs to COVID-19 after giving birth to healthy baby girl

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 30-year-old Florida woman battling COVID-19 for two weeks has died, days after giving birth to a healthy baby girl via C-section, on Juy 27, according to the Post.

Kristen McMullen delivered her daughter Summer Reign on July 27, six days after being admitted for COVID-19. After giving birth, she was eventually placed on a ventilator in the ICU.

“That first week, honestly, Kristen’s main concern was Summer and just making sure that she was OK,” her aunt Melissa Syverson told the NBC News.

“She never got sick, and we assumed like many people that this would just go away just as quickly as it came,” uncle James Syverson reportedly said. “Because with a lot of younger people — she was only 30 years old — that she would breeze through it and be back taking charge of life.”

They did not specify if McMullen was inoculated.

“We personally feel that whether a pregnant woman is or isn’t [vaccinated] or whether they wear a mask or don’t wear a mask, we feel like they’re at a huge risk potentially for it to be deadly for them or their baby,” Melissa Syverson said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday strengthened its recommendation that pregnant people be vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) as the agency released new data that indicated immunization caused no increased risk of miscarriages during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The CDC previously recommended pregnant people should receive the vaccine in April, the Advance/SILive.com reported.

Federal officials said less than a quarter of pregnant women in the US have received at least one dose, far fewer than the 71 percent of American adults who have had at least one shot.