Pregnant people experienced lower rates of side-effects from the COVID-19 vaccine than their counterparts who weren't pregnant, a new Canadian study suggests.
A basket of needles containing Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine waits to be administered to patients at a COVID-19 clinic in Ottawa on March 30, 2021. A new Canadian study suggests that pregnant people experienced lower rates of health problems after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine than their counterparts who weren't pregnant.
Of 5,597 pregnant participants, four per cent reported a significant health event within seven days of receiving their first dose of an mRNA vaccine, and 7.3 per cent of 3,108 pregnant respondents said they had side-effects from their second shots. Studies on other vaccines have found that pregnant people experience side-effects at roughly the same rate as those who aren’t pregnant or even slightly higher, said Sadarangani, an investigator at BC Children’s Hospital.
Thursday’s study found that rates of serious health events after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, such as hospitalization, were similarly rare across all groups.
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