Politico The Department of Health and Human Services is circulating a document on Capitol Hill to explain its decision to remove the Covid-19 vaccine recommendation for pregnant women — citing studies that largely found the shot is safe.
The document, which HHS sent to lawmakers days before Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his plan to fire the panel that advises the CDC on immunizations, says that studies have shown that women who got the vaccine during pregnancy had higher rates of various complications. And it claims that “a number of studies in pregnant women showed higher rates of fetal loss if vaccination was received before 20 weeks of pregnancy,” footnoting a research paper on vaccination during pregnancy.