Should you take the Covid-19 Vaccine if You ’re Pregnant?

The FDA took an important step on Friday by authorizing the Emergency Use for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Recognizing the risks inherent in COVID-19 infection can be significant, while those identified to date for its vaccine appear to be low, they have not advised against vaccination during pregnancy. However, its important to note that have they not specifically approved the vaccine for use in pregnancy. That’s because we have neither animal or human data on use of the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy or breastfeeding. This is incredibly frustrating to those of us who care from women of reproductive age. Some have gone so far as to call it a massive oversight in the research and regulatory process around COVID-19 vaccines. Indeed, it makes no sense, for a number of reasons – There is nothing in the vaccine that would appear to pose excess risk to a pregnant woman or her fetus. We have years of experience safely providing vaccination to millions of women during pregnancy. (Think Flu vaccine, for one.) Even those vaccines designated as unsafe in pregnancy have not been found to cause excess maternal or neonatal morbidity or mortality when accidentally given. Pregnancy is considered a high risk condition for severe covid-19 infection. Women make up a large percentage of the healthcare worker population, at risk for COVID-19 infection, and to date constitute the largest percentage (73%) of healthcare workers infected with CVOID-19. Finally...
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