A group of women, two of them doctors, said “misinformation” about COVID-19 vaccine is putting pregnant women at risk.
Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter, on right, revealed she got a COVID-19 booster while pregnant. The other speakers are, on left, Dr. Chavone Momon-Nelson, the chair of the OB-GYN department at UPMC Carlisle Hospital, and Dr. Denise Johnson, Pennsylvania’s physician general.Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary said she received a COVID-19 vaccine booster after learning she is pregnant.
They said pregnant women are at higher risk of becoming severely from COVID-19 and that COVID-19 is safe for them and their babies. Johnson and others said research also suggests vaccination protection extends to unborn babies and also to babies being breastfed. Further, they said COVID-19 vaccine has no negative impact on fertility and likelihood of becoming pregnant.
“I encourage all pregnant women to talk to their [health care] providers to get their questions answered and their concerns addressed, to be fully educated, and to make their own decisions about vaccination,” she said.
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