High-Risk Pregnant, Breastfeeding Women Urged To Get Access To COVID-19 Vaccines

Source: Mia Rabson The Canadian Press, globalnews.ca, January 06, 2020

Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding might be at higher risk of serious illness if they get COVID-19. 

OTTAWA — The head of the Ontario Medical Association says the risk COVID-19 poses to pregnant and breastfeeding women is higher than the risk of taking a vaccine against the virus that causes it.

Dr. Samantha Hill, a cardiac surgeon in Toronto, says because pregnant and breastfeeding women haven’t been included in clinical trials yet she is worried the message many pregnant women are getting is to not get vaccinated.

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