The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of the virus's serious risks of hospitalization and death.
The CDC highly recommends that persons who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant acquire the COVID-19 vaccine "to avoid serious illness, fatalities, and bad pregnancy outcomes."
The warning comes after the pandemic's worst month for pregnant women to date. At least 22 pregnant women in the United States died from the virus last month, and practically all of the pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19 this year have not been inoculated (97%).
If a person catches COVID-19 while pregnant, their chances of being hospitalized or dying increase considerably, the CDC said.
However, just around 30% of pregnant persons have been vaccinated. As a result, over 22,000 pregnant women have been admitted to hospitals because of the disease, and at least 161 have died as a result - 22 of whom perished just last month.
"I strongly encourage those who are expecting a baby or considering pregnancy to discuss the protective benefits of the vaccine with their healthcare provider to keep their babies and themselves safe," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement released alongside the Health Alert Network bulletin.
The immunizations are completely safe for pregnant women, studies and real-world experience show, and the risk of COVID-19 surpasses any inherent problems.
Pregnant women who contract COVID-19 have a two-fold risk of being admitted to intensive care and a 70% greater risk of death compared to non-pregnant women, the CDC said.
During the epidemic, there was a lot of misinformation about immunizations and infertility. The fact is that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women (and their inseminators), and the advantages of vaccination outweigh the risks.
Getting vaccinated can help pregnant women avoid numerous diseases significantly. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, an Israeli research done in the spring of 2021 shows, reduced the chance of infection by almost 80% among more than 7,500 pregnant women.
Many studies have also demonstrated that newborn kids can benefit from their mother's immunization, with COVID-fighting antibodies being produced in the womb and carried by the children after birth.
