Overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women

COVID-19 in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of severe maternal illness, ICU admissions, mechanical ventilation and deaths. Vaccination is the best way to protect pregnant women against these known risks of infection in pregnancy. There is an urgent need to prioritize strategic respons...

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Autor principal: Lamptey, Emmanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2022
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8813575/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gocm.2022.01.007
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description COVID-19 in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of severe maternal illness, ICU admissions, mechanical ventilation and deaths. Vaccination is the best way to protect pregnant women against these known risks of infection in pregnancy. There is an urgent need to prioritize strategic responses to optimize vaccination among expectant mothers. In this paper, we reviewed potential patient and healthcare provider barriers to COVID-19 immunization and propose effective strategies for overcoming them.
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spelling pubmed-88135752022-02-04 Overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women Lamptey, Emmanuel Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine Perspective COVID-19 in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of severe maternal illness, ICU admissions, mechanical ventilation and deaths. Vaccination is the best way to protect pregnant women against these known risks of infection in pregnancy. There is an urgent need to prioritize strategic responses to optimize vaccination among expectant mothers. In this paper, we reviewed potential patient and healthcare provider barriers to COVID-19 immunization and propose effective strategies for overcoming them. The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2022-03 2022-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8813575/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gocm.2022.01.007 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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