ADVERTISEMENTThe CDC carried out a study involving 379 babies aged up to six months, who were hospitalized in 20 pediatric centers from July 2021 to January 2022. The authors studied the odds of Covid-19 vaccination among mothers whose babies were hospitalized with the disease (176 infants) compared to the odds of vaccination among mothers whose babies were hospitalized for non-Covid reasons (203 infants), who were a control group. “Babies less than six months old whose mothers were vaccinated were 61 percent less likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19,” CDC researcher Dana Meaney-Delman said in a press call. What’s more, 84 percent of babies who were hospitalized with Covid were born to people not vaccinated in pregnancy. The one baby who died in the study was born to a mother who was not vaccinated.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 16, 2022 15:05 UTC