Women who are vaccinated during pregnancy may protect not only themselves from COVID-19 but also their babies, according to new research published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study found that infants under 6 months old were 61% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 if their mothers had received a Pfizer or Moderna vaccination against the disease during pregnancy, and concluded that vaccination during pregnancy “might help prevent COVID-19 hospitalization among infants.”
“The data CDC is publishing today provides real world evidence that getting a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy might protect infants,” said Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, chief of the CDC’s infant outcomes monitoring research and prevention branch.
