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Doctors say COVID vaccine should be tested on pregnant women


Doctors say COVID vaccine should be tested on pregnant women
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A demand by Australian women’s health experts that pregnant and breastfeeding women be included in clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines was ignored, and doctors say leaving them out is discriminatory.
Representatives of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Breastfeeding Association of Australia, and midwifery expert associate professor Karleen Gribble said pregnant women should have been allowed to volunteer for vaccine trials and the fact they were not means “many more women are at risk”.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women were not included in vaccine trials for COVID-19 but some women’s health experts argue it was discriminatory not to have included them. ....

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