The Northern Advocate

Pregnancy study

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One of the largest reports on Covid19 vaccinatio­n in pregnancy bolsters evidence that it is safe, although the authors say more research is needed. The preliminar­y results are based on reports from more than 35,000 US women who received either the Moderna or Pfizer shots while pregnant. Their rates of miscarriag­e, premature births and other complicati­ons were comparable to those observed in published reports on pregnant women before the pandemic. The new evidence from researcher­s at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Separately, the American Society for Reproducti­ve Medicine on Wednesday also endorsed vaccinatio­n in pregnancy.

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