"These findings highlight that COVID-19, like many other infections in pregnancy, may pose risks not only to the mother, but to fetal brain development," said senior author Andrea Edlow, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Mass General Brigham, in a statement.
"They also support the importance of trying to prevent COVID-19 infection in pregnancy and are particularly relevant when public trust in vaccines—including the COVID-19 vaccine—is being eroded," Edlow said.
Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, announced the COVID-19 vaccine would no longer be recommended for healthy pregnant women…
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