Only 40% of pregnant people are vaccinated and babies born to vaccinated moms are 61% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the CDC’s morbidity and mortality weekly report.
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we are actually tracking all of today’s major developments in addition to our conversation with abc’s chief medical correspondent dr jen ashton here with us we have an eye on this number the delta variant accounted for 99 of all coveted 19 cases just about two months ago now that’s zero percent as the omicron variant and its sub lineages currently make up 100 of new infections all right dr ashton two plus years into this now we continue to learn more and more and we’re learning more about the vaccine and impact on babies in particular pregnant women and therefore their newborns and an important population new data out from the cdc now they looked at delta variant time period but they actually looked at outcomes they looked at babies admitted to the hospital whether they were born to vaccinated mothers or unvaccinated mothers if they were born to vaccinated moms 61 percent less likely to be hospitalized with covid19 if they were hospitalized with covet 19 84 percent of those babies were born to unvaccinated moms and if they were placed in an intensive care unit setting 88 percent of those babies born to unvaccinated moms so you see just the effect of vaccination during pregnancy because these are babies under the age of six months old and we’ve said it here before only 40 percent of pregnant women are fully vaccinated so now there’s data that suggests that not only can you pass antibodies to your newborn but that it can help with outcomes as well yeah it’s a it’s a win-win on that one all right there’s also a new warning out about people who vape and having a higher chance of of severe complications with covet 19 you know for some people this is kind of common sense if you smoke or vape or do both you’re at higher risk for complications after covet 19 infection this latest published study confirmed that so again important to look at different populations who have different risk factors and people who vapor smoke another high risk population all right dr jen thank you so much well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we’ll see you in the morning on gma
