Pregnant in a pandemic
How dangerous is a COVID-19 infection during pregnancy? In principle, pregnant women are more susceptible to all infectious diseases, said Hösemann, who also chairs Saxony s state-level Professional Association of Gynecologists (Landesverbandes des Berufsverbandes der Frauenärzte). During pregnancy, a mother s immune system virtually shuts down to stop [the body] rejecting the baby, said Hösemann. Half of the baby s genetic material comes from the father and is essentially foreign to the mother s body, and that may otherwise cause it to be rejected.
In their public statement, 11 professional associations in Germany called for the preferential vaccination of pregnant women because, they say, there is sufficient data to show that a COVID-19 infection is dangerous for both mother and child.
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COVID: Is it safe to get vaccinated in pregnancy?
Pregnant women are a risk group for severe COVID-19. But vaccinations among the pregnant are running slow in Germany, compared with other countries.
Why are pregnant women in Germany not getting vaccinated?
If only the medical advice were clearer, Anja W., a 35-year-old woman in the 25th week of pregnancy, would want to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
She s a doctor, and she knows her way around all the issues. If the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Standing Committee on Vaccination would clearly recommend vaccination for pregnant women, and if a COVID-19 vaccination was deemed a lower risk than an infection with the virus itself, I would get vaccinated. I ve been watching the advice in other countries. In the US, they ve been vaccinating pregnant people for months, said Anja W.