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“The body must prepare for pregnancy, any pregnancy is perceived by the body as a foreign body. It is not worth giving additional stress to the body at this time, ”she said, adding that COVID-19 carries risks for the reproductive system of both women and men, it is best to avoid them with the help of vaccination.

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Vaccination should not be done earlier than 12-14 weeks of pregnancy, the chief physician of the Moscow Academic IVF Clinic, obstetrician-gynecologist of the highest category Nino Kakuchaya also believes, noting that vaccination can still be allowed before this period.

Kakuchaya added that pregnant women suffer the disease more severely, while the frequency of complications after vaccination in women with or without pregnancy is the same. According to the WHO, she said, among women who become pregnant, the risk of getting into intensive care is five times higher than a woman without pregnancy. In case of illness, the risk of intrauterine fetal death increases 22 times compared to pregnancy in a healthy woman, she said. The doctor emphasized that these data are cumulative for all countries of the world; the statistics include states with a low level of health care.

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At the end of August, the Ministry of Health advised pregnant women to be vaccinated against COVID-19 no earlier than 22 weeks of the deadline. Natalya Dolgushina, chief freelance specialist on the reproductive health of women of the Ministry of Health of Russia, clarified that it is best to get vaccinated before pregnancy, but coronavirus vaccines are safe even for those women who are in a position. According to her, vaccination does not increase the risk of perinatal or obstetric complications, while the danger is the disease itself.

According to the Ministry of Health at the end of October, only 1.3% of pregnant women were vaccinated against infection in Russia. “At the moment, there are 760 thousand pregnant women, of whom only 9600 were vaccinated,” said Roman Shmakov, chief freelance obstetrician of the Russian Ministry of Health. He added that among women in the position of coronavirus, 6% had been ill.

“That is, we do not even reach 10% <...> women who [защищены от] development of covid during pregnancy, ”concluded Shmakov.

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