COVID-19 vaccines do not increase the risk of miscarriage in pregnant women, two new studies find.
In one study, a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at data from the agency's smartphone tool V-SAFE, which tracks people who received Covid shots.
In the other study, a separate team looked at different data from the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink.
Both sets of researchers arrived at the same conclusion: women who suffered miscarriages were not more likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine than women who were still pregnant.
Doctors hope the findings can help convince pregnant women, who are at a greater risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19, to get vaccinated.
Two new studies found that women who suffered miscarriages were not more likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine than women who were still pregnant. Pictured: A pregnant woman waits in a food pantry line at S. Mary's Church in Waltham, Massachusetts, May 2020
Pregnant women are at increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19 compared to the general population but just 24.8% (light blue line) have gotten at least one vaccine dose
As of Wednesday, only 24.8 percent of pregnant people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to CDC data.
This is despite several studies finding that expecting mothers are more vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19 or death than the general population.
One study last month from the University of California, Irvine Medical Center found that women undergoing childbirth while infected with COVID-19 were 5.7 times more likely to end up in intensive care units at 5.2 percent compared to 0.9 percent of women without Covid
Additionally, about 0.1 percent of mothers with the virus died in comparison with 0.01 percent of those who weren't infected, a 10-fold difference.
For the first new study, published on pre-print server Research Square, a team from the CDC analyzed data from V-SAFE.
The tool uses text messages and web surveys so the people who received the immunization can report any symptoms or side effects they are experiencing.
Researchers looked at 2,456 pregnant women
