Vaccinations against covid-19 are in full swing in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
In the coming weeks, 100,000 vaccine doses are expected to be delivered to Sweden daily.
After that, an increase to 500,000 doses per week is expected, with the goal that the entire population of Sweden should have been offered a vaccine before the summer.
The rapid development of vaccines has been preceded by extensive tests.
However, none of the approved vaccines have yet been approved for pregnant women.
According to Ali Mirazimi, professor of clinical virology at Karolinska Institutet, pregnant women are still advised against taking the vaccine.
- We do not want to vaccinate those who are pregnant right now, says Ali Mirazimi in SVT's Corona special which was broadcast on Thursday.
However, there is no major risk for women who take the vaccine and become pregnant later, according to Ali Mirazimi.
- If you vaccinate now and you wonder what happens if you get pregnant next year, the probability is very low that the vaccine will affect.
So probably nothing happens, he says.
According to Ali Mirazimi, the risk is also considered low for breastfeeding mothers.
He emphasizes that the data base is currently weak due to low participation in the phase 3 studies that have been done.
- We do not have much data.
But the probability that such a vaccine will affect breastfeeding is very low, he says.