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Those planning a pregnancy or undergoing fertility treatments should get both doses before pregnancy, according to the recommendation.
Sharon Alroy-Preis, the Health Ministry s head of public health services, emphasized in a Channel 12 interview on Monday that reproductive medicine experts, as well as the U.S. Center for Disease Control and the UN s World Health Organization, back this recommendation. She argued the vaccine outweighs any COVID-19 risks to pregnant women.
Last week, the Health Ministry said it did not recommend that pregnant women in their first trimester be vaccinated unless they were part of a high-risk population, citing a relatively high incidence of hemorrhages, miscarriages and fetal malformations during the first trimester.
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