Since the appearance of vaccines against the coronavirus, some doubts have arisen about their application, particularly in the case of pregnant women, nursing mothers, children and adolescents, something we talked about a month ago.
The director of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the United States, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said on Friday that she recommends that pregnant people receive the vaccine against Covid-19, after knowing the preliminary conclusions of a new study on Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
Although they are more frequent during childhood, vaccines can be administered at any stage of life, but like any other medicine, they can also have contraindications and raise doubts if they have to be administered in sensitive periods such as pregnancy.
Just a day ago we knew of the first case in the world of antibodies against the coronavirus detected in the umbilical cord blood of a baby born to a mother immunized with Moderna's vaccine three weeks earlier. That already made researchers suspect that vaccinating pregnant women during pregnancy is effective in protecting their children as well.
Pregnant and lactating women were left out of the initial trials of Covid vaccines, so it is not recommended to apply them in this group in a generalized way, leaving the decision to each woman. Evaluating risks and benefits, each one decides whether to immunize or not, taking into account particular conditions such as having previous illnesses or being health professionals with a high risk of contagion.
Just a few days ago we pointed out that the University of Oxford had launched the first trial to assess the safety and immune responses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in children and adolescents, the first initiative of its kind.
This year, due to the health crisis caused by Covid, it has been decided to bring the flu vaccination campaign forward to the first half of October (normally begins at the end of October-beginning of November). The objective is to buy time to ensure that the population at risk has developed antibodies for when infections begin to increase in winter.
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