Choices facing pregnant women regarding COVID‐19 vaccination

Variability in COVID‐19 vaccination rates in pregnant women: Vaccine hesitancy or supply limitations?

“…Sookaromdee and Wiwanitkit note that some vaccines may be more effective than others. 1 While that may be so, the World Health Organization has stated that all approved COVID‐19 vaccines offer substantial levels of protection against serious COVID‐19 infections and deaths. 4 They recommend that one should take whatever vaccine is first available and state that the current vaccines provide strong protection against serious illness and death.…”

“…Dear Dr Papageorghiou, We thank Drs Sookaromdee and Wiwanitkit for their interest in our paper describing COVID-19 vaccine knowledge, attitude and practices among pregnant women in the eight sites of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health, and especially for their focus on discrepancies in vaccination rates and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women. 1,2 Several health data systems track population vaccination rates by country. 3 The discrepancy in vaccination rates between sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world is stark.…”