Getting the COVID vaccine during pregnancy dramatically reduces the risk of preterm birth, according to a major new study
Pregnant people who receive the COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to suffer severe illness and about 30 percent less likely to give birth prematurely, according to new research.
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Pregnant people who receive the COVID vaccine are much less likely to experience severe symptoms of the disease or give birth prematurely, according to a comprehensive study. new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Those who received the vaccine during pregnancy, rather than before pregnancy, were even less likely to have health complications. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that COVID vaccines are safe and beneficial in different populations. Despite that evidence, the Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed the recommendation for pregnant people to get the COVID vaccine, something Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has said “I couldn’t be happier” about.
Contracting COVID during pregnancy is especially risky and dramatically increases your chances of serious illness and even death. Unvaccinated people are at greater risk of serious consequences.
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The new study, conducted on nearly 20,000 pregnant people in Canada, shows that vaccinated pregnant people are about 60 percent less likely to be hospitalized and 90 percent less likely to need intensive care than unvaccinated people. In the Delta and Omicron waves, receiving the vaccine was also respectively associated with a fifth and third lowest risk of having a premature birth, which carries numerous risks to the baby’s health.
“Our findings provide clear evidence at the population level that COVID-19 vaccination protects pregnant people and their babies from serious complications,” said Deborah Money, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UBC and lead author of the study, in a recent study. statement.
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