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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.