Infants Born To Mothers Who Were Vaccinated Against COVID-19 During Pregnancy At Lower Risk Of SARS-CoV-2, Researchers Say

MedPage Today (6/1) reports, “Infants born to mothers who were vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy had a lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, even when the Omicron variant was dominant, Norwegian researchers found.” During the Omicron wave, “infants whose mothers received a second or third dose of COVID vaccine during pregnancy had a 33% lower risk of a positive test at age 4 months than infants born to unvaccinated mothers,” and the differences “were even more dramatic during the Delta period,” the findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed.