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Apr 09, 2021 02:12 AM EDT
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and leading obstetrical care groups allowed pregnant people to receive COVID-19 vaccines yet they are denied to be inoculated.
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Pregnant people are at risk of getting infected with the infectious and deadly COVID-19. This is why the U.S. CDC and obstetrical care groups such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine allowed them to get vaccinated, according to a published report in TODAY.
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Although pregnant people are currently eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccines in all 50 states, many expectant moms in the U.S. have had to deal with unexpected roadblocks that often don t align with state or local policy before actually getting their shot. Some have been turned away completely.
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Since the pandemic began, pregnant people have faced a difficult choice: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.
The risk of severe disease or even death from COVID-19 while small is higher during pregnancy. More than 82,000 coronavirus infections among pregnant individuals and 90 maternal deaths from the disease have been reported in the U.S. as of last month.
But there s very little data on whether the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective during pregnancy, because people who are pregnant or breastfeeding weren t included in the initial clinical trials. (Pfizer recently began a new trial with 4,000 pregnant women.)