Who's been waiting for UK data on the safety of #COVID19 #vaccines in #pregnancy? 💉🤰🏽🇬🇧🤔
🙋🏻♀️
Well now we have some!
(TLDR: No concerns arising from this study)... 🧵
ajog.org/article/S0002-…
🙋🏻♀️
Well now we have some!
(TLDR: No concerns arising from this study)... 🧵
ajog.org/article/S0002-…
This study looked at people coming to give birth at St George's hospital in London between March 1st and July 4th 2021.
141 had had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine
1187 were unvaccinated. 2/
141 had had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine
1187 were unvaccinated. 2/
(And for those always on the hunt for data about the AstraZeneca vaccine in pregnancy... 13 of the vaccinated people had had AZ.) 3/
The authors took 133 of the ppl who had had COVID vaccine and matched them (for age, ethnicity, measures of deprivation, antenatal medication and pre-pregnancy diabetes) with 399 ppl who were not vaccinated.
(8 of the vaccinated ppl were left out because they had no match). 4/
(8 of the vaccinated ppl were left out because they had no match). 4/
They found no difference in
👉🏻stillbirth
👉🏻fetal abnormalities
👉🏻small for gestational age
👉🏻maternal or neonatal intensive care admission
👉🏻birth < 40 weeks
between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. 5/
👉🏻stillbirth
👉🏻fetal abnormalities
👉🏻small for gestational age
👉🏻maternal or neonatal intensive care admission
👉🏻birth < 40 weeks
between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. 5/
It's only mostly good news, because it means I have had to update my single slide summary *already*! 😉
6/6
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PS. I would really like to thank author of this paper @kalafaterkan_md for sending it to me when it was hot off the press!
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