Dr. Fauci says there are no “red flags” so far for pregnant women receiving COVID vaccines after more than 10,000 expectant mothers were shot.
Pregnant women were not included in the vaccination studies conducted by Moderna and Pfizer – but this left health officials and women eager to find out the results once they became available.
Food and Drug Administration officials have granted emergency permission for Moderna’s shooting to be used in adults 18 and older. Pfizer shooting is permitted for anyone 16 years of age or older.
“The FDA, as part of the typical investigation you have following the initial [emergency use authorization] We have found so far and we have to be careful, but so far there are no red flags about this, about pregnant women “, said Dr. Fauci during a JAMA interview on Wednesday.
Interestingly, many of the pregnant women were health care providers who were exposed [to coronavirus on a daily basis] and said, “I’d rather take it [my] chances of the vaccine, rather than being infected with SARS-CoV-2 due to side effects and results [of coronavirus] during pregnancy, “he added.
Expectant mothers were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 13.6 times more likely to die than non-pregnant Washington residents between the ages of 20 and 30 (above)
Dr. Fauci noted that there are higher rates of “adverse outcomes” for both COVID-19 pregnant women and newborns, which prompted pregnant workers to get vaccinated.
More than 10.00 pregnant women in the US have had at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and so far “there are no red flags,” said Dr. Fauci
But the absence of testing has left a lot of questions for pregnant women or those who want to get pregnant but also want to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Food and Drug Administration officials have granted emergency permission for Moderna’s shooting to be used in adults 18 and older. Pfizer shooting is permitted for anyone 16 years of age or older.
Photo makers are still collecting data on the effects of vaccines on pregnant women.
U.S. health officials and experts say it should be up to women to get the vaccine and that doctors should not discourage them from getting vaccinated – especially because there is evidence that COVID-19 may pose a higher risk for vaccination. pregnant women than others and may increase the chances of giving birth prematurely.
Both Pfizer and Moderna kept pregnant women out of the initial trials, but the women remained pregnant during their studies.
This gave the companies some involuntary information about the safety of shootings for pregnant women.
Both the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have called for women to be aware of the risks of coronavirus vaccines, but not to be discouraged from receiving them.
So, pregnant women became eligible in the first phase of the vaccine launch to make their own decision on how to get it.
Women who test positive for COVID-19 are seven percent more likely to have to have a cesarean delivery, which increases the risk of babies being born with breathing problems or having heavy bleeding or developing infections. .
They also face a six-fold higher risk of needing treatment in an ICU and a 3.5-fold higher risk of developing a life-threatening blood clot.
Pregnant women infected with coronavirus are 19% more likely to get into labor early and 23% more likely to die.
Women were most commonly infected in the third trimester of pregnancy
Pregnant women are also 13 times more likely to die from COVID-19 if they catch the virus than other women or men, according to a recent study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The researchers also found that expectant mothers infected with the virus were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized with complications.
Moreover, expectant mothers were almost 14 times more likely to die than Americans in their 20s and 30s.
The findings come a day after the World Health Organization recommended pregnant women not to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, just three weeks after a similar warning was issued for the Pfizer vaccine, due to a lack of safety data.
But the team, from the University of Washington, Seattle, told DailyMail.com that its study shows exactly why pregnant women should be shot and why they should not be excluded from vaccine studies and recommendations.
More than half of COVID-19 cases – 56.3 percent – were detected in the third quarter.
The researchers compared hospitalization and death rates during pregnancy with those of similarly aged adults between the ages of 20 and 39 in Washington state.
The results showed that 24 expectant mothers, or 10%, were hospitalized specifically for coronavirus symptoms.
This is approximately 3.5 times the COVID-19 associated hospitalization rate of adults of similar ages, which stood at 2.8%.
In addition, a third of hospitalized patients were admitted to the ICU.
In addition, they were three deaths among pregnant patients for a maternal mortality rate of 1,250 per 100,000 pregnancies, or 1.2 percent,
This rate is 13.6 times higher than the 91.7 deaths per 100,000 patients, or 0.09 percent, of those unloaded aged between 20 and 39 years.
‘We were shocked that we had so many women who died of COVID-19, because maternal deaths are very rare in the state, “said Kristina Adams Waldorf, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University School of Medicine in DailyMail. Washington. com.
“We only have one hand a year and these are three that happened in just a few months … and despite all the best care that needs to be provided.”