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Pregnant women agonize over whether to get coronavirus vaccine Frances Stead Sellers Replay Video For the first eight months of her pregnancy, Yadira Rivas, a nurse coordinator at Neighborhood Health of Virginia, relied on masks and gloves to protect her from the coronavirus that is rampant among her patients. Recently, she’s been considering another option — getting vaccinated. But after consulting with her obstetrician, Rivas decided to wait to get a shot until after her baby is born. “One thing that the provider did mention is that it is worse to have the covi...

January 1, 2021 For the first eight months of her pregnancy, Yadira Rivas, a nurse coordinator at Neighborhood Health of Virginia, relied on masks and gloves to protect her from the coronavirus that is rampant among her patients. Recently, she’s been considering another option – getting vaccinated. But after consulting with her obstetrician, Rivas decided to wait to get a shot until after her baby is born. “One thing that the provider did mention is that it is worse to have the covid than to have the vaccine,” she said. But with no safety data available for pregnant women, Rivas think...

Loading the player... With the rollout of coronavirus vaccines underway, millions of pregnant women across the nation, many of them frontline and health-care workers, are facing the dilemma of whether or not it’s safe for them to get vaccinated. Yadira Rivas, a nurse coordinator at Neighborhood Health of Virginia, had thought about getting vaccinated, but after consulting with her obstetrician, she decided to postpone getting the shot until after her baby is born, “One thing that the provider did mention is that it is worse to have the Covid than to have the vaccine,” Rivas said. But w...