- Dr Anthony Fauci said there were ‘no red flags’ with pregnant women receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
- About 10,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated in the U.S. so far, Fauci said.
- These women were health workers who would rather get the vaccine than risk infection, he said.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading expert in the United States, said on Wednesday that there were “no red flags” from 10,000 pregnant women who had the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Pregnant women and children were initially excluded from clinical vaccination trials.
The Food and Drug Administration has found “so far, and we need 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 adviser, said the pregnant women who received the shot were health workers who would rather get a vaccine than risk infection.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on January 25 that a lack of data means that pregnant women should not receive Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine unless the benefits of protection outweigh the risks, for example in health workers with high exposure risks. It issued the same advice on January 8 for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
The WHO withdrew this advice on 26 January, saying ‘we have no specific reason to believe that there will be specific risks that will outweigh the benefits of vaccination for pregnant women.’
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has advised pregnant women to consult their healthcare provider before receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
So far in the United States, about 27.2 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and about 6.4 million people have been completely vaccinated with two shots, according to the CDC.