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Column: The Mtn Midwife - COVID-19 VACCINATION AND YOUR PREGNANCY
Column: The Mtn Midwife - COVID-19 VACCINATION AND YOUR PREGNANCY
There has also been concern voiced in the community about the vaccine being live and containing small amounts of COVID-19. This is not the case. The vaccine is not a live vaccine and does not contain COVID-19. You cannot get COVID-19 from the vaccine. Instead, the vaccine contains nanoparticles that produce a spike protein to invoke an immune response against COVID-19. This means that if you are later exposed to COVID-19 your body will illicit an immune response on recognizing the specific protein and fight the virus itself. The vaccines are given several weeks apart – the timing depending on which one you get.
Currently, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) recommendation for pregnant women is that they do not routinely receive a vaccination because there is limited data on the outcomes for pregnant women with the vaccine at this stage. This is because the vaccine has not been specifically tested on pregnant women. However, as there are many similar vacci

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