A recent study in the USA of a total of 35,691 pregnant participants 16 to 54 years of age from December 14, 2020, to February 28, 2021 [1] was conducted by using data from the v-safe pregnancy registry [2], “v-safe after vaccination health checker” surveillance system [3], and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS, a national spontaneous-reporting (passive-surveillance) system established in 1990 and administered by the US CDC and the US FDA) [4], the three US vaccine safety monitoring systems for characterization the initial safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant participants [1]. Of 3,958 mRNA-vaccine (Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Moderna vaccine)-received-pregnant participants registered in the v-safe pregnancy registry, 115 (13.9%) of 827 completed pregnant participants had a pregnant loss and 712 (86.1%) had a live birth (mostly among third-trimester-COVID-19-vaccinated pregnant participants) [1]. Preterm birth (9.4%) and small-size-gestational age (3.2%) were the adverse neonatal outcomes [1]. The study revealed no neonatal death [1].

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Citation: Attapon Cheepsattayakorn., et al. “COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnant Women”. Acta Scientific Microbiology 4.11 (2021): 46-48.

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