A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify the risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have had COVID-19.
A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have had COVID-19.
Women who received COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy yielded no damage to the placenta, a new study shows. The Northwestern Medicine research, published in the journal
Obstetrics & Gynecology, looked into the placentas from patients who received the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and found no evidence of injury .
The study is significant: it add to the growing evidence that COVID-19 vaccines, at least the ones that use the mRNA platform, are safe in pregnancy.
The study’s corresponding author Dr. Jeffery Goldstein, assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, explained: “The placenta is like the ‘black box’ in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened.”
COVID-19 vaccine does not damage the placenta in pregnancy
A new Northwestern Medicine study of placentas from patients who received the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy found no evidence of injury, adding to the growing literature that COVID-19 vaccines are safe in pregnancy.
The placenta is like the black box in an airplane.”
Dr. Jeffery Goldstein
Northwestern Medicine pathologist
“The placenta is like the black box in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened,” said corresponding author Dr. Jeffery Goldstein, assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine pathologist. “From what we can tell, the COVID vaccine does not damage the placenta.”