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2/ The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee’s recommendation will now head to the @US_FDA, which is expected to accept that advice.
If the FDA grants emergency authorization, some Americans could start receiving vaccines within a matter of days.
3/ Women will likely constitute the majority of immediate vaccine beneficiaries. About 20 million Americans work in health care; 75% of those workers are women. More than two-thirds of the nation’s 1.3 million long-term nursing home residents are women.https://bit.ly/3oJDbQK
4/ Notably, the panel did not explicitly prohibit giving the COVID-19 vaccine to pregnant people. That leaves the door open for health care workers who are pregnant and breastfeeding during the initial vaccine distribution.https://bit.ly/3oJDbQK
5/ While pregnancy significantly increases COVID-19’s mortality risk, Pfizer’s large-scale vaccine trial excluded those who were pregnant or breastfeeding.https://bit.ly/36UbfCv
6/ And though Pfizer excluded pregnant people from enrolling in the study, 23 participants became pregnant during the trial, according to company data. Twelve received the vaccine, and 11 were in the placebo group. That information isn’t enough to draw larger-scale conclusions.
7/7 “We have really no data to speak to risks specific to pregnant women or fetuses, but also no data that would warrant a contra-indication to use in pregnancy at this time,” Doran Fink, an FDA deputy director, said.
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A top government panel voted in favor of granting emergency authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and older, including those who are pregnant — a notable departure from how British regulators addressed the pregnancy question.