Fauci claims there are no “red flags” so far for pregnant women receiving COVID vaccines after more than 10,000 expectant mothers received their shots.
Pregnant women were not included in the vaccine trials led by Moderna and Pfizer, but this left health officials and women willing to find out the results once they were available.
Food and Drug Administration officials authorized the emergency firing of Moderna for use on adults over 18 years of age. Pfizer shooting is permitted for anyone 16 years of age or older.
‘The FDA, as part of the typical follow-up you have after the initial issuance of any [emergency use authorization] we’ve found it, so far, and we have to be careful, but so far there are no red flags about it, about pregnant women, ”Dr. Fauci said during an interview Wednesday on JAMA.
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] odds with the vaccine instead of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 due to adverse effects and results [of coronavirus] in pregnancy, ”she added.
Pregnant women were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 13.6 times more likely to die than non-pregnant Washington State residents who were between twenty and thirty (above)
Fauci noted that there are higher rates of “adverse outcomes” for both pregnant women with COVID-19 and their newborns, which has motivated pregnant health workers to get vaccinated.
More than 10.00 pregnant women in the U.S. have had at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and so far “there are no red flags,” Dr. Fauci said.
But the lack of evidence has left many questions to women who are pregnant or want to conceive, but also want to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Food and Drug Administration officials authorized the emergency firing of Moderna for use on adults over 18 years of age. Pfizer shooting is permitted for anyone 16 years of age or older.
Trait manufacturers are still collecting data on the effects of vaccines on pregnant women.
U.S. health officials and experts have said it should be up to women if they get the vaccine and that doctors should not discourage them from getting vaccinated, especially because there is evidence that COVID-19 may carry higher risks for to pregnant women than other people. , and could increase the chances of giving birth to your babies prematurely.
Both Pfizer and Moderna kept pregnant women out of their initial trials, but the women became pregnant during the trials.
This gave companies some involuntary ideas about shooting safety in pregnant women.
Both the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have urged women to be aware of the risks of coronavirus vaccines, but are not discouraged from taking them.
So pregnant women decided to choose in the first phase of vaccine deployment to make their own decision on whether to get it.
Women who test positive for COVID-19 have a seven percent higher risk of having to give birth by cesarean section, which carries the risk that babies are born with respiratory problems or that women have heavy bleeding or develop infections.
They also face six times the risk of needing treatment in the ICU and the 3.5 times greater risk of developing a life-threatening blood clot.
Coronavirus-infected pregnant women are 19% more likely to go to work early and 23% more likely to suffer a fatal death.
Women became infected more frequently during the third trimester of pregnancy
And pregnant women are 13 times more likely to die from COVID-19 if they detect the virus, compared to other women or men, according to a recent study by Brigham and Women Hospital.
The researchers also found that pregnant women infected with the virus were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for complications.
In addition, expectant mothers were about 14 times more likely to die than American mothers in the population between the ages of twenty and thirty.
The findings come a day after the World Health Organization recommended pregnant women not to receive the Modern COVID-19 vaccine, just three weeks after issuing a similar warning for the Pfizer vaccine, due to the lack of security data.
But the University of Washington, Seattle team told DailyMail.com that its study shows exactly why pregnant women should receive the vaccine and why they should not be excluded from vaccine trials and recommendations. .
In the third quarter, more than half of the cases of COVID-19 were detected, 56.3%.
The researchers compared hospitalization and mortality rates during pregnancy with those of adults of similar ages, between the ages of 20 and 39, in Washington state.
The results showed that 24 pregnant women, or 10%, were hospitalized specifically for coronavirus symptoms.
This is approximately 3.5 times the COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate in adults of similar age, which stood at 2.8 percent.
In addition, one-third of hospitalized patients were admitted to the ICU.
Plus, there were three deaths among pregnant patients at 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 of 100,000 patients, or 0.09 percent, of non-pregnant women aged 20 to 39 years.
‘We were surprised to have so many women who died of COVID-19 because maternal deaths are really very rare in the state, ”Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Medicine School, told DailyMail Washington. how.
“We only have a handful a year and those are three that happened in a few months … and despite the best care there is.”