Covid-19: Vaccines and Pregnancy Debate
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Baroness Wheatcroft
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Covid-19: Vaccines and Pregnancy
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Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, the up-to-date advice is this: get the vaccine. That is absolutely being promoted very widely.
Baroness Wheatcroft (CB)
My Lords, if the up-to-date advice is “Get the vaccine”, which is exactly what it should be, what work is being done to assess the effect on women of having Covid during their pregnancy? What is the effect on the child? Is there any research on that?
Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, the noble Baroness points to one of the challenges of longitudinal research: the babies have not been born for very long, of course. We need to do long-term studies to understand the effect. There is no evidence at all of a negative outcome but we will need to monitor that; research resources will be dedicated to looking at it.