Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has profound adverse effects on pregnant women, increasing the incidences of preeclampsia, preterm birth, maternal admission to intensive care units, and even maternal death in addition to an increased risk of severe neonatal morbidity. [1][2][3] Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was low at the beginning of the pandemic owing to the initial paucity of data in the pregnant population, with such hesitancy especially high in societies with a low prevalence of the disease. 4 With the outbreak of COVID-19 at the beginning of June 2021 in Taiwan, the Taiwanese Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) encouraged pregnant women to be vaccinated after weighing the risks and benefits of the vaccines available at that time. However, at the time, there were no data on the safety profile of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines in the Asian population, especially among pregnant women.
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