First 5 Orange County Commissioner pens op-ed in Daily Pilot over COVID-19 vaccine

Dec 13, 2021 | First 5 Commission News

First 5 Orange County Commissioner Katherine Chiu, who is also the Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, recently wrote an op-ed that appeared in The Daily Pilot urging pregnant women — and those who are trying to get pregnant — to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

An excerpt:

“Even with the intense focus on getting as many people as possible vaccinated, we as a society have largely overlooked an important group in our concerted vaccination communications push — pregnant women.”

Read the full op-ed at The Daily Pilot or click the image below.

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