Canada gynecologists say Vaccination COVID-19 “Stay safe and highly recommended” during pregnancy and during breastfeeding.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada published on Wednesday one day after the Secretary of the United States of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – A long -standing anti -vaccine activist – said that the blow is no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women south of the border.
Pregnant women who are infected with COVVI-19 are more at risk of serious illness requiring hospitalization and intensive care than women who are not pregnant, said SOGC.
Obtaining the COVVI-19 vaccine also helps to protect against serious complications associated with the virus, such as premature births, he said.
“We have increasing and growing scientific evidence of the impact of COVVI-19 infection or other respiratory viruses on pregnant people and how vaccination reduces this,” said Drine El-Chaar, a specialist in maternal fetal medicine at Ottawa hospital in an interview.
El-Chaar, who also spoke in the name of the SOGC, said that pregnant women remain a priority population for vaccination coded in Canada and that the shooting also offers a certain immunity against the baby virus.
Kennedy’s decision to stop the United States is not based on any medical evidence, she said.
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“There was no study, there was no clinical trial, no follow-up study that suggested negative results or impact of COVVI-19 vaccination in pregnant populations or infants … which would scientifically influence the decision taken by the authorities in the United States,” she said.
Citing “an era of increasing disinformation and disinformation”, the SOGC has urged women and health care providers to rely on “scientific and clinical expertise based on evidence” to make vaccine decisions.
El-Chaar said it was important that the group publishes a declaration to reassure pregnant women in Canada who see us disinformation on news or on social networks.
Pregnant women should have a boost at the end of 19, especially if they had their last vaccination over six months ago, she said.
“I speak of” a vaccine, two lives “. You protect the mother and the baby, ”said El-Chaar.
– With files from the Associated Press.