Getting the covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy can reduce your newborn’s risk of infection
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Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect infants against infection in their first six months of life, but it may be less effective against newer variants of covid-19.
Ousseny Zerbo at Kaiser Permanente in California and colleagues examined the effectiveness of vaccination during pregnancy against covid-19 in 30,311 infants born between December 15, 2020 and May 31, 2022 at 20 northern California health centers. Of the infants, 19,418 had unvaccinated mothers, 9,755 had mothers who…