A CDC study finds that Covid-19 vaccines do not increase the risk of preterm births or low birthweights for pregnant women
Nicole Fahey, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot on Nov. 3, 2021 in LosThe study looked at over 45,000 expectant women between December 2020 and July 2021, and found vaccination during pregnancy “was not associated” with preterm births and small-for-gestational-age births , compared to unvaccinated women.
That result did not change based on when during the pregnancy they took the vaccine or whether they were fully or partially vaccinated. Nearly 22% of the subjects were vaccinated while pregnant, mostly in their second or third trimester.As of December, approximately 40% of pregnant women in the United States were vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the
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