44 MINUTES AFTER 7 O’CLOCK WE ARE DIGGING DEEPER INTO SOME ENCOURAGING NEWS ABOUT THE
COVID-19 VACCINE IN
PREGNANT WOMEN AS WE REPORTED
YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO THE
CLEVELAND CLINIC EARLY RESEARCH
STUDIES SUGGEST THAT VACCINE
ANTIBODIES HAVE BEEN DETECTED
IN BREAST MILK, WHICH MEANS
THAT A VACCINATED MOM MAY BE
ABLE TO HELP PROTECT HER BABY
FROM COVID-19
BY BREASTFEEDING WE HAVE
LEARNED MORE ABOUT COVID-19 IN
PREGNANCY IN THE LAST YEAR
CERTAINLY DURING THE PANDEMIC
AS WELL DOCTOR SEAN TO ADAMS IS
A BG WHY AND WHO JOINS US VIA
ZOOM, GOOD MORNING, THANKS FOR
BEING WITH US, I KNOW YOU HAD A
LATE NIGHT WORKING. GOOD
MORNING AND THANKS FOR
HAVING ME. SO THESE ARE SMALL
STUDIES THAT I JUST REFERENCED
SO MORE RESEARCH CLEARLY NEEDS
TO BE DONE IS THERE ANY MORE
INFORMATION THOUGH ABOUT HOW
LONG THE MOM NEEDS TO BREAST
FEED TO PERHAPS PASS VACCINE
ANTIBODIES ON TO THEIR INFANT.
>>LAUREN VERNO: SURE SO MOST OF THE STUDIES THAT WE USED TO REFERENCE FOR MOMS REFER TO
EITHER BREASTFEEDING LESS THAN
3 MONTHS FOR SAYS BREASTFEEDING
MORE THAN 6 MONTHS.
SO WE KNOW THAT BREAST FEEDING
LESS THAN 3 MONTHS DOES SHOW
THAT BABIES HAVE INCREASED
RISKS OF
ASTHMA AND THE TIGERS AND OTHER
EAR INFECTIONS AND THINGS LIKE
THAT AND WE KNOW THAT BREAST
FEEDING MORE THAN
6 MONTHS CONFERS LONGER
IMMUNITY FOR BABY AND
PROTECTION AGAINST MANY OTHER
INFECTIONS AND THAT’S KIND
OF THE WE’RE THAT WE’RE USING
RIGHT AND IT AND OTHER
INFECTIONS OTHER THAN COVID-19
AS
AN EXAMPLE.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: SO SO DOES
GETTING THE VACCINE OFFERED THE
FETUS AND ULTIMATELY THE NEW
MOURN ANY PROTECTION REGARDLESS
OF IF MOM BREAST FEET.
WELL, YES BECAUSE IT WILL AND
ALSO DEPENDS ON
ON TIMING.
>> SO IF MOM GETS IT IN THE
BEGINNING OF HER 3RD TRIMESTERS
A 3RD TRIMESTER IS ONE MOM
BEGINS TO COME FOR PASSIVE
IMMUNITY TO BABY
ANTIBODIES THE THINGS THAT MOMS
ALREADY
IMMUNE TO CROSS THE PLACENTA IN
ORDER TO GAIN SOME PASSIVE
IMMUNITY
TO BABY. SO THE IDEAL TIME IF
IF THERE IS ONE FOR FOR
VACCINATING IN PREGNANCY WOULD
BE LATE SECOND TRIMESTER INTO
EARLY 3RD TRIMESTER AND THAT’S
IMPORTANT AND I WANT TO TALK A
LITTLE BIT IF WE COULD ABOUT
DISPELLING SOME MYTHS AND
MISINFORMATION THAT WE HAVE
SEEN ONLINE.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: CAN GETTING
VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19
HURT OR ALTER THE DNA OF AN
INFANT AND CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS
FOR EXAMPLE.
>> SO THE LARGEST STUDY WE HAVE
TO DATE IS FROM NEW ENGLAND
JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, IT WAS
PUBLISHED IN APRIL WE LOOKED
OVER 35,000 VACCINATED WOMEN
AND THE COOL THING ABOUT THE
STUDIES THAT WE HAD WOMEN FROM
ALL.
JUST A SHUL AGES IN PREGNANCY
EVEN SOME THAT WERE VACCINATED
BETWEEN THE TIME OF THEIR LAST
CYCLE AND THE TIME THAT THEY
FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE
PREGNANT THAT WAS THE SMALLEST
GROUP ABOUT
2%. BUT ABOUT 25% WERE IN THE
FIRST TRIMESTER ABOUT 40% WERE
IN THE SECOND TRIMESTER WEEKS
14 TO 28 AND THEN THE REST WERE
YOU KNOW FULL FULL 3RD
TRIMESTER AND CLOSER TO TERM.
THEIR RATE OF BIRTH DEFECTS
THAT WE SAW IN THE STUDY WAS
ABOUT
2%. AND IN COMPARISON IN
GENERAL POPULATION, IT’S ABOUT
4%.
SO WE DIDN’T SEE ANY INCREASED
INCIDENCE OF BIRTH DEFECTS AND
THE VACCINATED POPULATION AND
WHAT ABOUT BREASTFEEDING AFTER
GETTING VACCINATED COULD THAT
SOMEHOW HARM THE BABY.
>> NOW SO AGAIN
THE WAY THAT THEY THAT MOMS
TRANSFER IMMUNITY TO THE BABY
WITH BREASTFEEDING
IS THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT
TYPES OF ANTIBODIES THAT ARE
CREATED IGM IGG TOO R INTO
THE WEEDS. BUT I IS THE ONE
THAT CROSSES INTO BABIES GOT
AND CONFERS THE COMMUNITY TO TO
THE BABY. SO THE CONCEPTION THAT THE ACTUAL VACCINE THAT’S INJECTED INTO MOM’S ARM IS
CREATING BE IMMUNE RESPONSE AND
IN THE BABY IS IS
ACTUALLY FALSE.
THE THE BABY JUST LIKE I SAID
PASSIVELY GETS IMMUNITY IT
DOESN’T CREATE ITS OWN IMMUNITY
WITH WITH THE VACCINE. WHATEVER
ACTUALLY PASSES INTO THE BREAST
MILK. BABIES GOT SYSTEM THE
ACID IN THE STOMACH.
UNLESS IT’S COATED IN ASH THAT
WHICH IT’S NOT
IS DESTROYED AND SO THE ACTUAL
VACCINE ISN’T
WHAT DOES IT IT’S THE ANTIBODY
ANY KIND OF IMMUNITY SOUNDS
GOOD TO ME WHEN IT COMES TO
HAVING A NEW BABY AND ONE MORE
QUESTION IF I COULD
AND BRIEFLY.
>> ARE YOU SEEING MORE PREGNANT
WOMAN BEING HOSPITALIZED 2 ARE
NOT VACCINATED AS A RESULT OF
SERIES GLEE. JUST IN GENERAL, I
90% OF THE PEOPLE ARE
HOSPITALIZED COVID NOW
ARE UNVACCINATED.
>> MY MOMS WHO ARE GETTING
COVID BECAUSE MAKE NO MISTAKE.
THIS IS A MUCH BIGGER BOOM BEEN
THE FIRST TIME WE HAD
DAILY WERE GETTING PHONE CALLS
ABOUT MOMS WHO’VE BEEN EXPOSED
OR AND THE ONES
WHO ARE HAVING TO BE
HOSPITALIZED FOR RESPIRATORY
SUPPORT. OUR
UNVACCINATED.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: NOTHING MORE
FRIGHTENING THAN HAS BEEN
HAVING A WIFE IN THE HOSPITAL