Pregnant women should get a COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending. “CDC recommends that pregnant people receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We know that this is a deeply personal decision, and I encourage people to talk to their doctors or primary care providers to determine what is best for them and for their baby,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the health agency’s head, told a virtual briefing on Friday. The recommendation is an update from previous guidance, which advised pregnant women that they may choose to be vaccinated but did not recommend doing so. The shift in messaging follows preliminary findings from a CDC observational study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found “no obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Two of the three shots authorized for emergency use in the United States, one from Moderna and one from Pfizer-BioNTech, …
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