âRisk is quite low and the benefit is enormousâ: Pregnant women should get COVID-19 vaccine
Experts conclude Should pregnant women get COVID-19 vaccine? (Source: KFDA) By Vania Patino | December 28, 2020 at 9:50 PM CST - Updated December 29 at 12:56 AM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - When it comes to who should get the COVID-19 vaccine, pregnant women fall under a group with very little medical guidance.
For years, pregnant and lactating women have not been included in clinical trials, including the ones for COVID-19.
This means there is no data available for how they will react to the approved Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.
âWeâve had to live in a world of unknowns, and when you are living in that world, what you do is make educated guesses based on pharmacodynamics and other viruses that are very similar to the one we are seeing,â said Dr. Teresa Baker, co-director of the InfantRisk Center at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center âAnd that i
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As an OB/GYN, it is important to me that my pregnant and nursing patients and those who may become pregnant have all of the information they need to make a good decision about whether or not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Hereâs what we know:
During the COVID-19 pandemic we found out that pregnant women with COVID-19 disease are more likely to get a very severe infection. According to the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, they are three times more likely to have to go to an intensive care unit, two to three times more likely to need advanced life support and a breathing tube, and sadly, they have a small increased risk of death due to COVID-19. They may have worse pregnancy outcomes, such as pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and preterm birth. It is difficult to know yet whether COVID infection causes these outcomes or whether they happened at the same time by chance.
It s my body, it s my future child and it s my family that I m doing this to protect : Doctor speaks about getting COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant
Per the CDC, pregnant women who contract COVID-19 are significantly more likely to end up in the ICU and need a ventilator compared to non-pregnant women their age. Author: Sonia Azad Updated: 10:30 PM CST December 22, 2020
The CDC lists pregnant women among those who need to take extra precautions to avoid COVID-19. That s because if they do contract the virus, they re at high risk for becoming severely ill.
At the same time, many expectant mothers are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine because there s no data yet on vaccinating pregnant women.
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