NORWAY: A study has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine in which researchers found no correlation between COVID-19 vaccinations and pregnancy loss.
They followed almost 18,500 pregnant women in Norway, including about 4,500 who underwent miscarriages. According to the estimations, the women with miscarriages were 9 per cent less likely to have been vaccinated.
They also found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and the risk of first-trimester miscarriage, regardless of whether the vaccines were from Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca.
In a separate study published in The Lancet, researchers tracked 107 women who got pregnant while participating in trials of AstraZeneca's vaccine in Brazil, the UK, and South Africa. Among them, 72 women received the vaccine, while the others got a placebo. The researchers then reported that AstraZeneca's vaccine did not affect the probabilities of safely carrying the pregnancy to term.
Therefore the authors of this Norwegian study highlighted the importance of vaccination for pregnant women since they had a higher risk of hospitalizations and COVID-19-complications, and their babies were at higher risk to born prematurely. They also said that vaccination during pregnancy would protect the newborn against COVID-19 infection in the first months after birth.
