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Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 while pregnant will not put your baby at risk of a fetal abnormality in the womb, according to international research. The team studied 3156 pregnant patients at a Chicago medical centre, 83.1 per cent of whom had received at least one vaccine dose and 43.8 per cent of whom had been vaccinated during the critical development period of a fetus. The researchers say fetal anomalies were detected in 5.1 per cent of unvaccinated pregnancies and 4.2 per cent of vaccinated pregnancies, suggesting no association. The researchers say these are early findings and more comprehensive research is needed.
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What The Study Did: The association between COVID-19 vaccination during early pregnancy and risk of major fetal structural anomalies identified on ultrasonography was evaluated in this study.
Authors: Rachel S. Ruderman, M.D., M.P.H., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
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