Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds
The New York Times
A study of hundreds of thousands of infants in France did not find any increased risk of birth defects among those whose mothers received a Covid vaccine in the first trimester, building on previous evidence for the vaccines’ safety.
“This piece of evidence fits within the broader scope of the evidence that these vaccines are safe during pregnancy, and that the risk-benefit profile favors vaccination during pregnancy,” said Dr. Aaron Richterman, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.
Dr. Richterman, who was part of a team that reviewed recent vaccine data for the University of Minnesota’s Vaccine Integrity Project, which was created this year to offer science-based advice on immunizations, called it “a very high-quality study.”