SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland

Sarah J  Stock; Jade  Carruthers; Clara  Calvert; Cheryl  Denny; Jack  Donaghy; Anna  Goulding; Lisa E M  Hopcroft; Leanne  Hopkins; Terry  McLaughlin; Jiafeng  Pan; Ting  Shi; Bob  Taylor; Utkarsh Agrawal; Bonnie  Auyeung; Srinivasa Vittal  Katikireddi; Colin McCowan; Josie  Murray; Colin R  Simpson; Chris  Robertson; Eleftheria  Vasileiou; Aziz  Sheikh; Rachael  Wood

doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01666-2

SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland

Sarah J Stock^*, Jade Carruthers, Clara Calvert, Cheryl Denny, Jack Donaghy, Anna Goulding, Lisa E M Hopcroft, Leanne Hopkins, Terry McLaughlin, Jiafeng Pan, Ting Shi, Bob Taylor, Utkarsh Agrawal, Bonnie Auyeung, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Colin McCowan, Josie Murray , Colin R Simpson, Chris Robertson, Eleftheria VasileiouAziz Sheikh, Rachael Wood

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Abstract

Population-level data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pregnancy and SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes are lacking. We describe COVID-19 vaccine uptake and SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women in Scotland, using whole population data from a national, prospective cohort. Between the start of COVID-19 vaccine programme in Scotland, on 8 December 2020, and 31 October 2021, 25,917 COVID-19 vaccinations were given to 18,457 pregnant women. Vaccine coverage was substantially lower in pregnant women than in the general female population 18-44 years: 32.3% of women giving birth in October 2021 had two doses of vaccine compared to 77.4% in all women. The extended perinatal mortality rate for women who gave birth within 28 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis was 22.6 per 1,000 births (95% CI 12.9-38.5; pandemic background rate 5.6 per 1,000 births (452/80,456; 95% CI 5.1-6.2). 77.4% (3,833/ 4,950; 95% CI 76.2-78.6) of SARS-CoV-2 infections, 90.9% (748/823; 95% CI 88.7-92.7) of SARS-CoV-2 associated with hospital admission, and 98% (102/104; 95% CI 92.5-99.7) of SARS-CoV-2 associated with critical care admission, as well as all baby deaths, occurred in pregnant women who were unvaccinated at the time of COVID-19 diagnosis. Addressing low vaccine uptake rates in pregnant women is imperative to protect the health of women and babies in the ongoing pandemic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	504–512
Journal	Nature Medicine
Volume	28
Issue number	3
Early online date	13 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01666-2
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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Stock, S. J., Carruthers, J., Calvert, C., Denny, C., Donaghy, J., Goulding, A., Hopcroft, L. E. M., Hopkins, L., McLaughlin, T., Pan, J., Shi, T., Taylor, B., Agrawal, U., Auyeung, B., Katikireddi, S. V., McCowan, C., Murray , J., Simpson, C. R., Robertson, C., ... Wood, R. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland. Nature Medicine, 28(3), 504–512 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01666-2

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SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland

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