Pregnant women, breastfeeding moms, minors can’t have COVID vaccine anytime soon – solon

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All signs point to pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and minors under 16-years-old not getting any COVID-19 vaccine shots in the foreseeable future due to safety concerns, said Anakalusugan party-list Rep. Mike Defensor Sunday, as the very promising Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is beginning to make

waves abroad, particularly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada where it has been approved for use.

“We expect our own Food and Drug Administration here to affirm the same recommendations – once the vaccine gets an EUA here – simply because the safety and efficacy of the shots in children under 16, pregnant women, and mothers who are breastfeeding has yet to established by further clinical trials,” he said.

The Commission on Population and Development said the country will record two million pregnancies this year, some 214,000 of which are unplanned. The vaccine is meant to be administered intramuscularly in the arm in a series of two doses 21 days apart. Speaking on Robredo’s weekly radio show, Barry Gutierrez said he was surprised over the lack of a definite source of funds to immunize millions of Filipinos next year.

The remaining P70 billion, according to Drilon, is allocated under the “unprogrammed funds” provision of the 2021 General Appropriations Bill which the Senate and the House ratified last week.

 

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