Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns
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25 March 2021Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in producing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in pregnant and lactating women. They also demonstrated the vaccines confer protective immunity to newborns through breastmilk and the placenta.
