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Health Officials Push Pregnant Women to Get COVID Shots, Despite Known Risks In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authorization to two messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against COVID-19. Because the unapproved vaccines’ status is investigational, anyone who gets an injection (whether they realize it or not) is agreeing to participate in an ongoing experiment. Recognizing that there are many unknowns, many Americans have refused the experimental jab, ...

Scientific American There’s finally a plan for how to do that Advertisement Pregnant women have historically been excluded from the majority of medical research under the justification of protecting these women and their pregnancies from harm. But when new treatments are not tested in this population, we cannot know whether those treatments are safe and effective. People who are sick or have chronic conditions can become pregnant, and those who are pregnant can get sick or develop health cond...