As more North Carolinians continue to be vaccinated, some pregnant women are unsure whether the COVID-19 vaccine is right for them.
While the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine have been shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19, more research is needed to understand how the vaccine affects pregnant women and those trying to conceive.
Neither the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine clinical trials enrolled pregnant women at least purposefully. Some women in the trials were pregnant and did not know it, and researchers are following those pregnancies and newborns.
“It is a standard precaution not to enroll pregnant women for phase III studies,” said Dr. Cynthia Gay, leader of the Moderna clinical trial at UNC. “Based on everything we know about other vaccines and what we know about these vaccines, there’s not a particular safety concern in pregnant women. But we don’t have that safety data of pregnant women having received a vaccine.”
False claims tying coronavirus vaccines to infertility drive doubts among women of childbearing age
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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Niharika Sathe, center, an internal medicine physician, is in her second trimester of pregnancy. She decided to get the coronavirus vaccine after investigating false reports that it was linked to fertility issues.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel Wisniewski
Niharika Sathe, a 34-year-old internal medicine physician in New Jersey, first heard the fertility rumor from another doctor.
The friend confided that she would decline the coronavirus vaccine because of something she d seen online - that the shot could cause the immune system to attack the placenta, potentially leading to miscarriage and infertility. Sathe, who was early in her pregnancy at the time but had not told anyone, spent the next few weeks scrutinizing information from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Soci
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“It really is a personal decision,” said Dr. Crystal Pacanowski, an obstetrician-gynecologist.
It’s a decision Dr. Pacanowski faced herself.
“I’m six months pregnant right now,” she said.
The soon-to-be mother of five is at a higher risk for contracting the virus as both she and her husband; a physician, work directly with COVID-19 patients.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Nuvo Group, an emerging leader in maternal-fetal health, today announced new clinical data for INVU™, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, remote pregnancy monitoring platform, at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) s 41
st Annual Pregnancy Meeting. The data, presented in a scientific poster, Amplitude-modulation of maternal electrocardiography and phonocardiography as a novel method for wireless non-invasive uterine monitoring, supports a new method for detecting maternal uterine activity (MUA) tested by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the