Pfizer, BioNTech start testing Covid-19 vaccine in pregnant women

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Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their Covid-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women, the companies said on Thursday.

Pregnant women are at higher risk of developing severe Covid-19, and many public health officials have recommended some women in high-risk professions take coronavirus vaccines even without proof they are safe for them.

Bioethicists, vaccine and maternal health experts have argued for years that pregnant women should be included early in trials of pandemic vaccines so they would not need to wait until long after a successful one emerges. Drugmakers have said they first need to make sure the vaccines are safe and effective more generally. In the US, regulators require drugmakers to conduct safety studies in pregnant animals before vaccines are tested in pregnant women to ensure they do not harm the foetus or lead to a miscarriage. The companies said those studies revealed no new risks.The new study will test pregnant women aged 18 and older in the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, SA, the UK and Spain.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

 

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Which mother is willing 2 put their children risk when even the vaccines used for decades aren't adviced for pregnant women. What kind of mothers r they?

These maybe women they chose from various abortion clinics. I mean, only an expectant mother who cares less what happens to her unborn child will take such a risk. And the payout maybe pretty good too. Perhaps even insurance for next of kin.

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