Increased premature births after corona vaccination?

A new US study gives the answer

Created: 01/05/2022Updated: 01/05/2022, 4:50 PM

A study from the USA looked at the question of whether corona vaccinations lead to premature births more often.

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Pregnant women belong to the risk group in the pandemic.

The corona vaccination is recommended, but there are concerns that the vaccination will promote premature births.

, according to a large-scale evaluation in the USA .

For the study, the US medical authority CDC evaluated more than 46,000 pregnancies with a calculated due date between February 21 and July 31, 2021.

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at the time , the evaluation did not contain any reliable data on women who were vaccinated in the first trimester of pregnancy, it said.

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The data from around 36,000 unvaccinated pregnant women and around 10,000 vaccinated people were evaluated.

Among the unvaccinated, 7.0 out of 100 cases gave birth before the predicted date, and among the vaccinated 4.9 out of 100 cases.

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The study also found no differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated mothers in the number of cases in which babies were classified as too small for the time of birth.

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Unvaccinated people have an increased risk of a corona infection for severe courses and more problems during childbirth.