Efficacy and adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women

Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 is a disease that emerged with a rapidly increasing number of cases and deaths since it was first identified in Wuhan city belonging to China on December 2019. By January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) notified the outbreak as an international public health emergency and it is on February 11 of the same year that it took the name “COVID-19”. Vaccination was one of the best strategies to prevent and avoid complications produced by SARS CoV-2. Aim: to describe the literature on the efficacy and adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women. Method: non-experimental narrative literature review carried out by searching for articles in the following databases: Scopus and PubMed. Results: with the proposed research, 14 articles were found and analyzed, although the data are limited, women are more susceptible to coronavirus infection than the general population due to immunological changes. Conclusions: although in most of the literature and research, the administration of the vaccine against Covid-19 is safe and beneficial for pregnant women, it is important to mention that each pregnant woman responds differently to the vaccine.