It is now an understood fact: pregnancy is a risk factor for Covid.
Pregnant women are not more likely to be infected, but if they are, they are more likely to develop a severe form and/or give birth prematurely.
Hence the importance of vaccinating them: doctors and health authorities were reluctant for a time, due to a lack of data available in clinical trials, but pharmacovigilance monitoring has shown that RNA vaccines were safe and effective during pregnancy. , and all the more useful since we cannot vaccinate toddlers.
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However, there remained a gray area: when the mother is infected, what about the risk of transmission to her born or unborn child?
It is not zero, but is very limited,
researchers from the World Health Organization and the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) answer in the
British Medical Journal .
Previous work had revealed the existence of virus fragments
“in the blood…
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