No miscarriage increase with vaccines
MINNEAPOLIS – A research study based on data from Bloomington, Minnesota-based Healthpartners and medical centers across the country finds that pregnant women who received COVID-19 vaccines did not experience an increased risk of miscarriage.
Doctors hope the results will prove reassuring to pregnant women who, as a group in the U.S., have been relatively slow to get vaccinated.
Researchers analyzed data from about 105,000 patients early in their pregnancies between Dec. 15, 2020, and June 28, 2021. They found that women who suffered miscarriages did not have greater odds of having received a COVID-19 vaccine compared with women with ongoing pregnancies.
The new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at patients who received two-dose MRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer.
“Our data adds to a growing body of research that should give pregnant people confidence to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” said Dr. Elyse Kharbanda, senior investigator at Healthpartners Institute and lead author on the study.