Disease Control and Prevention
According to new research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccinating pregnant women against the Coronavirus also helps to guards their infants against COVID-19 once they are born.
2 doses of vaccines
Studies have found that infants whose mothers get 2 doses of vaccines during their pregnancies had 61% less possible to be hospitalized with COVID-19, up to their initial six months of life.
What Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman says?
“The bottom line is that maternal vaccination is a really important way to help protect these young infants,” and she added.
Vaccination during pregnancy
“Unfortunately, vaccination of infants younger than 6 months old is not currently on the horizon, highlighting why vaccination during pregnancy is so important for these young infants.”
Some statistics
If we take infants affected from COVID-19 from July 1, 2021, to January 17, 2022, it shows 84% of infants were born to unvaccinated mothers.
Antibody titers
Edlow said, “I think it’s a very important study because it shows real-world efficacy, and we know that antibody titers are a correlate of protection, we always are saying antibody levels are correlates of protection.
It is protective
But here they showed the correlation that it is protective. So I think that’s an incredibly important message from this study,”
Limitations
The new study had some drawbacks too, it failed to look into vaccine effectiveness, against a selected variant nor did it take a look at whether the mother was infected with COVID-19 negative or positive before or during their pregnancies.
What CDC recommends?
It recommends ladies who are planning to get pregnant or pregnant women or breastfeeding women, should get a vaccination against the Coronavirus.
Severe infection from COVID-19
Also, it alerts people who are become pregnant recently or are presently pregnant, are at a high risk of obtaining a severe infection from COVID-19.