Low flu vaccination rates for women during pregnancy, despite being an ‘at-risk’ group

“Just like for COVID-19, pregnant women who catch the flu are an at-risk group for being hospitalised and ventilated,” says Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious diseases expert. | marywardy

Few women receive a flu shot in pregnancy despite their risk of severe infection, prompting health experts to urge women who are pregnant or trying for a baby to get vaccinated as Australia’s flu season worsens.

Seventy-three per cent of women were not vaccinated against whooping cough and 69 per cent were not vaccinated against either illness, the analysis of data from 2012 and 2017 found. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends flu shots for women at any time during pregnancy and women planning to fall pregnant. Changed lung and cardiac function, and weakened immune response, increase a woman’s chance of severe illness if she catches the flu in pregnancy.

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