“It is up to three times higher than that of children born to vaccinated mothers.”
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Gye-hwan = ABC News reported on the 28th (local time) that a study showed that pregnant women infected with COVID-19 without receiving the vaccine during pregnancy were much more likely to reported giving birth to a baby suffering from breathing difficulties.
According to this study, a research team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that babies born to pregnant women who contracted COVID-19 while unvaccinated during pregnancy were up to three times more likely to have breathing difficulties compared to children born to vaccinated women. mothers revealed.
The research team studied the health status of 199 newborns born to a total of 221 pregnant women from April 2020 to August 2022, including 151 who had not been vaccinated before becoming infected with COVID-19.
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The research team explained that although all 199 newborns were born without being infected with Covid-19, they confirmed that, if exposed to Covid-19 in the womb, an inflammatory chain reaction can occur leading to breathing difficulties in the airways of the newborn.
The research team added that while all 151 people who had not been vaccinated before COVID-19 infection showed severe or severe symptoms according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification, only 4% of the 70 mothers vaccinated developed serious symptoms.
The research team emphasized that the results of this study are significant as they show that vaccination against COVID-19 is a way to prevent breathing difficulties in newborns and the severity of the mother’s illness.
Carin Nielsen, a professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said there have been unusually many cases in which babies born to mothers infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy had difficulty breathing immediately after birth.
Professor Nielsen pointed out that this suggests that COVID-19 vaccination may have played a role in protecting newborns from problems such as breathing difficulties.
This research paper was published in the international academic journal Nature Communications.
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