The acog Officially Recommends Pregnant People Get the COVID-19 Vaccine
With a new surge of COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant, many states are reinstating mask mandates nationwide and experts are urging everyone to get vaccinated. On July 30, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine released their own official recommendation that pregnant people receive the COVID-19.
Until now, the ACOG had maintained that pregnant individuals should have access to the vaccine, but that the decision was personal and one they should discuss with their doctors. With their new recommendation, the organization states that their evidence has proven COVID-19 vaccines to be safe and effective. Their recommendation comes amidst reports that the resurgence in hospitalization cases primarily affects those who have not yet been vaccinated.
Past data has shown that pregnant people are at an increased risk of complications due to the novel coronavirus. However,, only approximately 22 percent of pregnant individuals have gotten one or more of their vaccine doses. “ACOG encourages its members to enthusiastically recommend vaccination to their patients. This means emphasizing the known safety of the vaccines and the increased risk of severe complications associated with COVID-19 infection, including death, during pregnancy,” J. Martin Tucker, MD, FACOG, president of ACOG, said in the release.
“ACOG is recommending vaccination of pregnant individuals because we have evidence of the safe and effective use of the vaccine during pregnancy from many tens of thousands of reporting individuals, because we know that COVID-19 infection puts pregnant people at increased risk of severe complications, and because it is clear from the current vaccination rates that people need to feel confident in the safety and protective value of the COVID-19 vaccines,” he added.
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