Experts in public health and pregnancy care emphasize that the benefits that the Covid-19 vaccine offers pregnant moms — and their babies — significantly outweigh any risk.
“It is without question that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks, and the world’s literature on this topic includes hundreds of thousands of women,” said Dr. Brenna Hughes, chair of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Infectious Disease and Emerging Threats Committee, in published articles.
“One of the concerns that we’re seeing now is that people aren’t sure who to trust and who the trusted messenger should be,” Hughes said, but medical societies are the most reliable sources of information.
“We are very careful about the science that we put into our guidelines,” she said in a recently published news report. “We rigorously assess it for quality. We debate it to make sure that we think that the science is strong enough, and it is not one person making a decision or a recommendation. This is a committee of people with decades of expertise on these topics who really carefully look at the literature and ensure that we feel that it’s adequate before we make these recommendations,” one article reported.