While pregnant women are at a higher risk of suffering serious complications from Covid-19, including miscarriages and birth deaths, US health officials are trying to get them to get vaccinated.

For this, the main federal public health agency of the country (CDC) announced Wednesday that these women can be safely vaccinated against the disease.

"Vaccines are safe and effective, and it has never been more urgent to increase vaccinations, as we face the highly contagious Delta variant and the serious consequences of Covid-19 in pregnant people," warned Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

But less than one in four pregnant women has received at least a first injection of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Centers.

A long hesitant position

However, the health authorities have not always been so clear.

This strong position on the benefits of vaccines for pregnant women indeed contrasts with months of use of more ambiguous language from the CDC on the subject.

The WHO, for its part, has fluctuated on the delicate question of the benefit / risk ratio for this category of the population.

US health authorities came to their conclusion based on a study of nearly 2,500 pregnant women.

They therefore recommend that all people aged 12 and over be vaccinated against Covid-19.

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