Vaccination in pregnancy is a powerful public health tool, but underused. New insights from the pandemic may be just the spark needed to energise progress.
Vaccination in pregnancy is a powerful public health tool, but underused. New insights from the pandemic may be just the spark needed to energize progress.
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Last Friday, India finally allowed Covid vaccines for pregnant women. After firmly refusing to vaccinate them for months, the government swung to the opposite view that they “can and should” be vaccinated. “Vaccination is useful for them and should be given,” ICMR chief Dr Balram Bhargava said. This makes India only the 18th country to “recommend” vaccines for all pregnant women.
There are 28 other countries that “permit” Covid vaccines in pregnancy, but without overt encouragement. Another 46 countries either permit with restrictions, or deny with exceptions, data from COMIT (Covid-19 Maternal Immunization Tracker), developed by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Center for Immunization Research, shows.