A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that pregnant women are resisting vaccines.
The report detailed that almost 25% of pregnant women are “very hesitant about influenza vaccination during pregnancy.”
During 2021-2020, only 17.2% of pregnant women were hesitant to receive a flu shot.
Just under 20% of pregnant women were hesitant to receive the Tdap vaccine, compared with 14.7% of women during 2021-2022.
The resistance comes as the CDC is now recommending that pregnant women receive the flu, COVID-19, pertussis, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines.
“Findings from this survey indicate that approximately one half of pregnant women have not received influenza or Tdap vaccines, and only one quarter received both vaccines, thereby leaving themselves and their infants vulnerable to influenza and pertussis infection,” the report asserts, concluding, “Maternal vaccination coverage remains suboptimal.”
