Getting vaccinated against covid-19 during pregnancy can reduce your newborn’s risk of infection
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Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect infants from infection through their first six months of life, but it may be less effective against newer covid-19 variants.
Ousseny Zerbo at Kaiser Permanente in California and his colleagues examined the effectiveness of vaccination during pregnancy against covid-19 in 30,311 infants who were born between 15 December 2020 and 31 May 2022 at 20 health centres in northern California. Of the infants, 19,418 had unvaccinated mothers, 9755 had mothers who …