Covid-19 vaccinations do not increase the risk of first-trimester miscarriages in pregnant women new research shows.
They said: “It is important that pregnant women are vaccinated since they have a higher risk of hospitalisations and Covid-19 complications, and their infants are at higher risk of being born too early.
Dr Deshayne Fell, an associate professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine The percentage of vaccinated women was similar among the 13,956 women with ongoing pregnancies and the 4,521 women with miscarriages, at 5.5% and 5.1% respectively.
In SA, women between 16 and 34 weeks pregnant were informed on April 30 they would be allowed to get the J&J Covid-19 vaccines being rolled out to healthcare workers.
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