Pregnant women, the elderly still unknowns in coronavirus vaccine rollout
By medical reporter Sophie Scott and the Specialist Reporting Team s Nick Sas
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The World Health Organization does not recommend the COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women due to insufficient data .
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Print text only insufficient evidence to recommend routine use of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy.
It comes as the Australian Government says there are some things we don t yet know about the COVID-19 vaccines including their potential impact on pregnant women and the elderly but maintains very careful clinical decisions will be made about at-risk groups.
Pregnant women, breastfeeding mums and children will be excluded from Australia s COVID-19 vaccination program until there s better evidence of safe dosages. As the Morrison Government prepares to roll out the vaccine to millions of Australians from next month, expectant mothers and children are not part of the road map. That s despite the fact that the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is calling for pregnant women to be included in the clinical evaluation trials to speed up the approval process. Also, some pregnant women in the UK and the US are already receiving the vaccine. Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collingnon from the Australian National University told news.com.au that it was safer to wait.
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Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald nicholas.jones@nzherald.co.nz@nickjonesnzer A first-time mother who paid hundreds of dollars to see a psychiatrist to prove mental health grounds for a caesarean section worries other women will miss out, amid a drive to bring down the number of surgeries. I would like to ensure other women have access to this procedure if it s the way they would like to give birth, the woman, whose boy was born in July, subsequently wrote to the DHB.