Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for pregnancy?
Vaccination is recommended for pregnant women to prevent COVID-19, including severe illness and death. COVID-19 vaccination is safe and effective when administered during pregnancy
Is it safe to take Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy?
People who are pregnant have not reported different side effects from people who are not pregnant after vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines). Fever, for any reason, has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Are pregnant women more at risk of serious illness from COVID-19?
If you are pregnant or were recently pregnant, you are more likely to get severely ill from COVID-19 compared to people who are not pregnant. Pregnancy causes changes in the body that could make it easier to get very sick from respiratory viruses like the one that causes COVID-19.
What is Remdesivir?
Remdesivir is in a class of medications called antivirals. It works by stopping the virus from spreading in the body.
What can you tell us about pregnancy after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 shot?
What can you tell us about that? Results from published studies suggest there is no increased risk of first trimester pregnancy loss for patients who receive any of the three vaccines that currently have emergency use authorization: Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson-Janssen.
Has the COVID-19 vaccine been tested on pregnant women?
Evidence continues to build showing that COVID-19 vaccination before and during pregnancy is safe and effective.
Can COVID-19 affect pregnancy?
People who have COVID-19 during pregnancy are also at increased risk for complications that can affect their pregnancy and developing baby. For example, COVID-19 during pregnancy increases the risk of delivering a preterm (earlier than 37 weeks) and or stillborn infant.
What are the risks of the COVID-19 Omicron variant if you are pregnant?
Dr. Adhikari explained that respiratory infections, including COVID-19, are as infectious to pregnant women as they are in the general population. However, their effects can be far more severe due to the physiologic changes that occur in pregnancy
Does COVID-19 increase the risk of miscarriage in the first trimester?
Based on the evidence presented here, women who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 in their first trimester may be at an increased risk of a miscarriage. However, the overall rate of miscarriage in our study population was 8%.
How does Remdesivir injection work to treat COVID-19?
Remdesivir is in a class of medications called antivirals. It works by stopping the virus from spreading in the body.
Is Remdesivir approved to treat COVID-19?
Remdesivir is a nucleotide analogue prodrug that is approved to treat COVID-19 in certain patients.
What side effects can Remdesivir cause?
• nausea• pain, bleeding, bruising of the skin, soreness, or swelling near the place where the medication was injected
Background
Study Details
- The women came from a population-based study called the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort. All had delivered a singleton and had a live birth. There were over 231,000 women altogether. The medications used on an outpatient basis were assessed, as well as the period of gestation at the time of use, and the use of any combination of medications. The researchers classified the coho…
What Were The Findings?
- Of the more than 230,000 pregnant women in the study, over 8,000 were treated with one of the drugs now being used in the treatment of COVID-19. By far, the greatest number had been exposed to azithromycin, at ~6,000, and 1,400 to anticoagulation. Over 200 had taken the antiviral oseltamivir, and almost the same number received chloroquine. More than a hundred each had r…
What Are The Implications?
- The study shows definite risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes with specific drugs now being used to treat COVID-19. This includes HIV medication- and heparin-associated risks of preterm birth, LBW and SGA. The use of heparin has been associated with fetal death, anomalies and prematurity in an earlier study. The current study reported both LBW and p...