Looking at covid-19 since it was discovered in 2019 till date, it has really affected both children and adults, especially the aged ones who have less percentage survival from the virus if been infected. The worst about covid-19 is that it took a good number of lives away and also ended up in checking the global economy that most countries of the world are still struggling to survive from the negative effect of the virus. The good news here is that when covid-19 was noticed by science as of 2019, there was a lot of panics globally that restricted events, businesses, movements, and gathering of people to an extent that people no longer check hands to greet one another but in the end, WHO and in collaboration with the CDC was able to proffer solutions that avoided the spread of the virus before the coming of the Covid-19 vaccines.
After the existence of covid-19 vaccines as science contributed in 2020, the WHO, CDC, and other related global health management control department was able to come up with directives on how the vaccines could be administered to the people which included the understanding of the side effects and also checking the people before vaccination can take place. These methods helped how the vaccines were administered to date.
Today, having the knowledge of covid-19 and its vaccines, I decided that I have to look into the effects of the covid-19 vaccines on pregnant women because I believe that there must be an effect either positively or negatively on a pregnant woman after being vaccinated. Though, the WHO and CDC pointed out that everyone that is above 18 years old is entitled to be vaccinated but the question here is what of the babies that pregnant women are carrying, what will now be their faith of survival after their mother took the covid-19 vaccines?
NIH posited through research that pregnant women are more likely to have a side effects of dizziness, pains, and discomfort after being vaccinated with covid-19 vaccines. The report has it that it’s very difficult to dictate covid-19 vaccines that will not have any effect on pregnant women as it’s expected to help in booting their immunes but today, the WHO and CDC has being able to recommend the use of Sinovac vaccine that is capable of reducing the side effect. Out of fear of covid-19 vaccines, the NIH reported through research conducted that a good number of pregnant women don’t like taking covid-19 vaccines despite the WHO and CDC 90% assessment that it will have no negative effect on people who get the vaccines.
CDC reported that anybody who is above 6 months can get vaccinated but in their own view of the effect of covid-19 vaccines on pregnant women, they posited that pregnant women are more in danger in getting sick than those who are not pregnant. They also pointed out that pregnant women are also at risk in terms of delivery especially those with covid-19 already and should be handled with proper care of covid-19 vaccines.
It will very good if pregnant women are properly examined before they can be administered with covid-19 vaccines at least to reduce a load of tiredness, fever, pains, and many more effects after being vaccinated because it will keep them and their unborn babies safe. I also believe that doctors always need to check how old a pregnant woman's baby is before they can be administered with covid-19 vaccines because if it’s still a forming baby. A pregnant woman needs to always go for a check-up, especially after the first dose of covid-19 vaccines. The WHO and the CDC need to work hard in making sure that pregnant woman is provided with adequate care to reduce their level of covid-19 vaccine fear.
NIH suggested after they pointed out that there’s a lack of covid-19 vaccines for pregnant women that pregnant women need to take a complete two doses of covid-19 vaccines and if they are taking the vaccines, they should take it completely. In the NIH report, they also pointed out that mRNA vaccines can play a significant role for pregnant women in giving them adequate protection from reactions to covid-19 vaccines.
Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html