Infants in Norway were 36% less likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 if their mother received a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy.
Healio news story
COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy protected infants up to 6 months after birth, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
The study is part of a larger research project in Scandinavia investigating COVID-19 in pregnancy, according to lead author Helena Niemi Eide, MD, MPH, a doctoral research fellow in the department of community medicine and global health at the University of Oslo in Norway.
“This study confirms that COVID vaccination in pregnancy protects the infant against COVID-19 after birth,” Eide said. “This has been shown in previous studies, but we were also able to estimate how this protection waned over time and was no longer apparent after 6 months of age.”
“To our knowledge, this is also the first study which shows that COVID vaccination in pregnancy has no apparent effect on infections other than COVID-19,” she added.
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Source : Healio
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