Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent less likely to give birth prematurely, according to new research. Pregnant people who get a COVID vaccine are dramatically less likely to experience severe symptoms of the disease or to give birth prematurely, according to a comprehensive new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Those who got the shot during pregnancy, rather than before they were pregnant, showed even lower odds of health complications. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that COVID vaccines are safe and beneficial across different populations. Despite that evidence, the Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed the recommendation for pregnant people to get vaccinated against COVID, which Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has said he “couldn’t be more pleased” about.