The Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) has generally spoken out in favor of corona vaccination for pregnant and breastfeeding women. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday that the STIKO recommends vaccination for pregnant women from the second trimester of pregnancy and for breastfeeding women with two doses of an mRNA vaccine “after detailed consultation and evaluation of the existing evidence”. The draft resolution of the recommendation now has to go through what is known as an opinion procedure with the federal states and the specialist groups involved, so it is not yet a final recommendation.
In the previous vaccination recommendation, the STIKO did not advocate a general vaccination during pregnancy.
Random vaccinations of pregnant women, for example if they did not yet know that they are expecting a baby, are "not an indication for an abortion," it says.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) said: “Pregnant and breastfeeding women now have a clear recommendation for vaccinations.
After many months with many unanswered questions, that means finally scientifically founded certainty. "He turned to pregnant and breastfeeding women with an urgent appeal:" Ask your doctor.
Get vaccinated.
You protect yourself and your child. "
Doctors have already been able to vaccinate pregnant women, but the STIKO recommendation so far only includes pregnant women with previous illnesses and a resulting high risk of severe corona disease or with an increased risk of infection due to their living conditions.
The STIKO is an independent body.
She develops vaccination recommendations and looks at the benefits for the individual and the entire population.
For this purpose, the experts evaluate international data and studies.
The recommendations are considered a medical standard, as stated on the Stiko website.
Meanwhile it became known that around a quarter of the 12 to 17 year old adolescents are now fully vaccinated. 35.9 percent of this age group received at least one vaccination. This is based on figures from the Federal Ministry of Health on Friday (as of 10:03 a.m.). "The recommended vaccination protects at any age," wrote Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) on Twitter. Across the population, 61.9 percent or around 51.47 million people had full vaccination protection so far. At least one vaccination received 66.3 percent or about 55.14 million inhabitants.
Bremen (72.2 percent) still has the highest rate of fully vaccinated people, followed by Saarland (68.5 percent) and Schleswig-Holstein (66.6 percent). Four federal states have partial quotas of well below 60 percent: Saxony was at the bottom with 52.8 percent, followed by Brandenburg (56.4 percent), Thuringia (56.8 percent) and Saxony-Anhalt (58.9 percent).