- Dr. Anthony Fauci said there were no “warning signs” with pregnant women receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
- About 10,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated so far in the United States, Fauci said.
- These women were health professionals who preferred to get the vaccine rather than risk infection, he said.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ leading infectious disease specialist, said on Wednesday that “there was no warning sign” for 10,000 pregnant women who received the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Pregnant women and children were initially excluded from clinical vaccine trials.
The Food and Drug Administration found “so far, and we have to be careful, but so far, no red flags about it, about pregnant women,” he said in an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Fauci, who is Biden’s chief medical advisor, said that the pregnant women who received the injection were health professionals who would rather have the vaccine than be at risk of infection.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on January 25 that the lack of data meant that pregnant women should not receive the coronavirus vaccine from Moderna unless the benefits of protection outweigh the risks, for example, in healthcare professionals. high risk of exposure. He issued the same advice for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on January 8.
WHO withdrew this advice on January 26, saying “we have no specific reason to believe that there will be specific risks that would outweigh the benefits of vaccination for pregnant women”.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised pregnant women to consult their physician before receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
So far in America, about 27.2 million people have received at least one dose of a vaccine and about 6.4 million people have been fully vaccinated with two vaccines, according to the CDC.