Dana Meaney-Delman, Sarah Carroll, Kara Polen, Tara C Jatlaoui, Sarah Meyer, Sara Oliver, Julianne Gee, Tom Shimabukuro, Hilda Razzaghi, Laura Riley, Romeo R Galang, Van Tong, Suzanne Gilboa, Sascha Ellington, Amanda Cohn
As the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the clinical and public health community raced to understand SARS-CoV-2 infection and develop life-saving vaccines. Pregnant persons were disproportionately impacted, experiencing more severe illness and adverse pregnancy outcomes. And yet, when COVID-19 vaccines became available in late 2020, safety and efficacy data were not available to inform their use during pregnancy because pregnant persons were excluded from pre-authorization clinical trials. Concerns about vaccine safety during pregnancy and misinformation linking vaccination and infertility circulated widely, creating a lack of vaccine confidence...
February 28, 2024: Vaccine