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HEAD of the Bahamas Nurses Union Amancha Williams has expressed reservation over the new COVID-19 vaccines, saying she would like to see the drugs tested for a year before it is administered locally.
She also said it should not be mandatory for nurses to take the jab in order to work.
“My advice is to give it a year. Make the rest of the world test it and bring it to your country. We as a country like to run after everything that the Americans do, but we need to take into consideration what are the side effects, how potent is this drug, is it completely approved by the FDA?
Healthcare workers who breastfeed should be offered the covid-19 vaccine
December 21, 2020
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has advised that no breastfeeding woman should receive the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine. NHS Trusts have interpreted this as a blanket-ban. The decision disregards an individual’s particular level of exposure to the virus or her likelihood of developing a severe form of the disease. The MHRA’s stance, and associated restrictions around pregnancy, could undermine efforts to achieve high levels of vaccination, and worsen the UK’s already low breastfeeding rates.
Breastfeeding women have been excluded from the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccine trials. To date, no plausible biological mechanism for how an inactivated, recombinant vaccine would cause harm to a breastfed baby has been proposed. [1] However, any data gap leaves open a possibility of risk. Yet men who are trying to conceive can be vaccinated, eve
Should pregnant people get the Covid-19 vaccine? 21st Dec 2020 | Source: MSN
Being pregnant during a global pandemic is complex enough. Doctor’s visits, shopping for baby stuff, birthing plans it’s all made more complicated, and scarier, by the threat of a deadly sickness.
But now that people in the US and Europe have begun to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, there’s an extra layer of confusion. If pregnant people are inclined to get the vaccine, should they?
Pregnant people are clearly in need of some extra protection. In the past few months, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that pregnancy is a risk factor for Covid-19, making pregnant people who are infected more likely than the average person to have severe forms of the disease and to die from it. The infection doesn’t seem to affect the pregnancy itself, only the mother.
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Luyendyk and Burnham joined The View to reveal their wedding plans in January.Randy Holmes/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images
Former Bachelor stars Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham are expecting twins in July.
The couple, who met on season 22 of the ABC reality TV series and wed last year, made the announcement in a YouTube video, in which they documented Burnham s first visit to the doctor.
This is one of a series of articles in which reporters from WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk answer questions about vaccines and COVID-19 submitted by you, our audience.
In May 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched Operation Warp Speed as an effort to support pharmaceutical companies in developing vaccine candidates for the coronavirus.
The program’s goal was to distribute safe and effective vaccines to Americans by January 2021. It succeeded.
This all happened so fast, and I’m worried the process was rushed.
It’s true that, until now, the fastest the United States had ever brought a vaccine through clinical trials and to market was four years for the mumps vaccine, in 1967. But there are some key reasons that the leading SARS-Cov-2 vaccines were able to be developed so quickly.