Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women
The big question arises if women who are pregnant should be receiving vaccination to prevent them from contracting Covid-19.
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on February 1 to announce lifting the ban on certain restrictions and that the government had secured more vaccines from pharmaceutical companies Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, and the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team of the African Union.
The 1.5 million doses of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India on behalf of AstraZeneca arrived at OR Tambo International Airport.
However, South Africans would not be forced to take a Covid-19 vaccine.
What effect will it have on pregnant women who would like to be vaccinated?
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there are limited resources and information available on this subject.
This is until findings are available from clinical trials and additional studies. At this moment there are only limited data available on the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, including mRNA vaccines, administered during pregnancy:
Studies in people who are pregnant are planned.
Vaccine manufacturers are monitoring people in the clinical trials who became pregnant.
CDC and the Food and Drug Administration have safety monitoring systems in place to capture information about vaccination during pregnancy and will closely monitor reports.
