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🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Here is an issue that is not just an adult, it's not just a kid, it's maybe the most vulnerable |
0:08.0 | among us. That growing infant, when we think about pregnancy, when you think about the |
0:15.0 | recommendations for the pregnant, have you asked yourself, huh, I wonder how much science |
0:20.8 | was supporting this? |
0:24.0 | Getting COVID-19 could be bad. Being pregnant and catching the virus could be even worse. |
0:29.2 | Now the centers are issuing an urgent health advisory for pregnant women to get vaccinated. |
0:34.3 | The CDC issued its strongest guidance yet, urging pregnant women to get the COVID vaccine. |
0:39.2 | Multiple studies indicate there is more risk in not getting vaccinated. |
0:43.6 | There's nothing about the vaccines that have been licensed so far that raise any red flags |
0:48.4 | for people who are pregnant. |
0:49.7 | The data are really very, very strong. If you look at the tens and tens of thousands of pregnant |
0:56.0 | women who have gotten vaccinated, there's no safety signal of concern at all. |
1:02.0 | The vaccine's benefits outweigh any known or suspected risk and they are recommending them |
1:07.3 | aggressively for women either before pregnancy or in any of the trimesters. |
1:12.0 | We know tens of thousands of women have been vaccinated who are pregnant already in the United |
1:17.5 | States so so far it looks safe. |
1:20.2 | I'm really worried about the long time effects. What about when the baby's five years old? |
1:23.9 | It's important to remember that this is an mRNA vaccine and that supplies that |
1:27.6 | and the donor vaccines. They are not live vaccines and importantly they don't cross over to |
1:33.0 | through the percentage of the baby. |
1:34.8 | There is not an increased risk of miscarriage and in fact there is no biological mechanism by which |
1:41.5 | that could happen because we don't think that the vaccine actually crosses the |
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