More than two dozen toddlers and at least 128 pregnant women received RSV vaccines they should not have gotten, U.S. health officials say.
-- Pfizer's Abrysvo -- was approved for pregnant woman, with the aim of protecting the fetus. The other — GSK's Arexvy — was not. While no serious harms have been confirmed, in most cases the outcome is unknown.Animal testing suggests Arexvy might make RSV worse in toddlers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said.
The CDC recommends that children who received either vaccine be given nirsevimab , a protective monoclonal antibody., amid concerns about a slightly higher, but statistically insignificant, risk of preterm birth. The vaccine is recommended only from September through January, peak RSV season. Some pregnant women apparently got GSK's vaccine because Pfizer's shot was not available and pharmacists thought they were interchangeable.that she's looked for Pfizer's RSV vaccine Abrysvo in several pharmacies for her pregnant daughter. Finally, in mid-September, she found a pharmacy that said they had the vaccine on hand.“We're all human, but there has got to be more checks and balances than this,” Gardner said.
The virus is a leading killer of children around the world, and up to 80,000 kids under 5 go to the hospital with RSV infections each year, according to the CDC. As many as 10,000 older adults a year die from RSV.Explore the changes a pregnant woman's body goes through as you watch a baby grow during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesters.
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