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Medicine has a long history of systematically excluding women from trials of potentially life-saving drugs.
We know vaccines are safe and effective for men and women. We don’t have those answers for pregnant women.
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Now pregnant women find themselves excluded from the life-saving benefits of a COVID-19 vaccination. Because they were not part of clinical trials, we cannot know with certainty if vaccines are safe and effective for them.