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COVID-19 mRNA vaccines safe and effective for pregnant and breastfeeding women The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought untold devastation in its wake, with its rapid and asymptomatic spread to hundreds of millions of people the world over. Vaccines have been hailed as the way out of this situation, and a dozen or so are being rolled out in many different countries. However, pregnancy has remained an exclusion criteria for vaccine trials, despite being a high-risk situation regarding COVID-19. A large part of the reason for this was both the uncertainty regarding t...
Tetiana Mandziuk/iStock COVID-19 mRNA vaccines trigger an immune response in pregnant and breastfeeding women, and maternal antibodies transfer into infant cord blood and breast milk, a small descriptive study yesterday in JAMA finds. A team led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston assessed immune response in a convenience sample of 103 pregnant, lactating, and nonpregnant women given either the Pfizer/BioNTech (54%) or the Moderna (46%) COVID-19 vaccine from December 2020 through March 2021. Seventeen percent of pregnant participants received their first vaccine dos...
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines produce robust immune responses in women who are pregnant or nursing The findings come from a small study conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston. By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff,Updated May 13, 2021, 11:23 a.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Dan Barouch, head of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the senior author of the new study.Lane Turner/Globe Staff Women who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines while pregnant or nursing had immune responses as robust as those of other vaccinated women...