"I was not created to be experimented on."
Posted on 03/31/2021 10:16:03 PM PDT by House Atreides
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective in pregnant and breastfeeding women, according to a new study published Thursday in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The study also found that mothers can pass antibodies to their newborns.
“That’s a very important piece of information to our patients,” Andrea Edlow, MD, the senior study author and a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, told ABC News.
“We know that this vaccine works for you,” she added.
The research team studied a group of 131 women who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, including 84 pregnant, 31 breastfeeding and 16 non-pregnant women. All three groups had similar high antibody levels. The study also found no significant differences in vaccine side effects between pregnant and non-pregnant women.
Compared to pregnant women who had recovered from COVID-19, pregnant women who received the vaccine had “strikingly higher” antibody levels, the authors wrote. In addition, women who received the Moderna vaccine had higher antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer vaccine.
The research team also found that vaccine-generated antibodies were present in all of the umbilical cord and breast milk samples that were tested, which suggests that pregnant women and breastfeeding women can pass COVID-19 antibodies to their fetuses and newborns.
“That is the most comforting piece of information that’s out there,” Galit Alter, MD, one of the study authors and a professor of medicine at the Ragon Institute in Massachusetts, told ABC News.
The research team found neutralizing antibodies in the blood of pregnant women, which indicates that the antibodies can kill the coronavirus.
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The antibody levels rise and fall dramatically, over the course of weeks.
If their curves are carefully matched for comparison, then the one with more antibodies at the peak, or that maintains antibodies present longer, would be expected to produce a stronger and likely longer lasting immunity.
But if you take one time snapshots of antibody levels without controlling for that curve over time, you can get wildly different results - one at peak, another at trough.
Participants who had recovered from COVID more than two months prior, would show little to no antibodies (dragging that average way down) - even though they were swimming in antibodies just after the peak of their infection. I’d expect that would be common among study participants, who might have had COVID anytime over the previous year. Even just one or two zeroes would really lower their average.
Less than one week after a first vaccine shot, and there would be very few antibodies. One week after the second shot (the most common test point) would show near peak levels.
The larger and longer term studies seem to indicate that Pfizer and Moderna are roughly equal in effectiveness, and that natural infection provides strong immunity - better than some of the other vaccine candidates (reportedly why Merck abandoned theirs, possibly why Sanofi did).
I have been a proponent of vaccination for COVID-19 (posting daily updates on the program), but when it comes to pregnant women, I would not want it for my own wife.
Women of child-bearing age are at low risk from the disease - they could reasonably wait a few more months, till after birth.
Albie, this was that original writeup:
There are now rebuttals against it, elsewhere.
"I was not created to be experimented on."
He has also communicated his hope to reduce the world's population (10-15%) at a TED talk "...If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that forecast by, perhaps, 10 or 15%...". Yes. Babies and humans are just 'forecasts' to him. Now why would you take the experimental jab he's pushing on the world, especially if you are expecting?
4/1/21
“Judicial Watch confirms feds were buying baby body parts”
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