CDC advisory: Increase COVID vaccinations in pregnant people

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory Wednesday recommending urgent enactment to summation COVID-19 vaccinations among large people, those trying to get pregnant, and those who mightiness go pregnant.

The CDC says it “strongly recommends” COVID-19 vaccination either earlier oregon during gestation due to the fact that the benefits of vaccination outweigh known oregon imaginable risks. Officials accidental the vaccines assistance forestall superior illness, deaths, and adverse gestation outcomes.

Additionally, the advisory calls connected wellness departments and clinicians to amended large radical connected the benefits of vaccination and the information of recommended vaccines.

CDC information shows that astir 97% of large radical hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated.

According to the data, lone 31% of large radical person been vaccinated against COVID-19 and vaccination rates alteration markedly by contention and ethnicity. The CDC says vaccination sum is highest among Asian radical who are large astatine 45.7%, but little among Hispanic oregon Latino large radical astatine 25%, and lowest among Black large radical astatine 15.6%.

Through Sept. 27, the CDC says determination were much than 125,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 successful large people, including much than 22,000 hospitalized and 161 deaths. Of those, 22 deaths occurred successful the period of August alone.

Cases of COVID-19 successful symptomatic large radical person a two-fold hazard of admittance into intensive attraction units and a 70% accrued hazard of death, officials say. And large radical with COVID-19 are astatine accrued hazard of adverse gestation outcomes that could see preterm birth, stillbirth, and a newborn being admitted into an ICU with COVID-19.

CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky issued the pursuing connection regarding the advisory: