Large review shows benefits of maternal COVID-19 vaccination

September 28, 2025

 

"DENVER — COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy provides significant protection for mothers and their babies with no associated increase in risk, according to data from more than 1.2 million pregnancies presented at the AAP’s [American Academy of Pediatrics) annual meeting. [emphasis added]

 

“COVID-19 vaccination reduced admission, mortality and pregnancy-specific complications,” Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of fetal medicine and surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, told reporters on Saturday. “On the neonatal side, it reduced NICU admission.”

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According to results summarized at the meeting, vaccination cut the risk for COVID-19 among pregnant women by more than half (RR = 0.41; 95% CI, 0.3-0.57). Zargarzadeh noted that vaccination also reduced the risk for hospitalization for mothers."

 

Zargarzadeh noted that there was no evidence of harm to infants, and in some cases, vaccination improved outcomes, including a reduced risk for stillbirth (RR = 0.75; 95% CI 0.58-0.98) and preterm birth (RR = 0.92; 95% CI, 0.86-0.99). “Most strikingly, vaccination was associated with a one-third reduction in severe preterm birth before 28 weeks,” she said. (emphasis added)

 

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https://www.healio.com/news/pediatrics/20250928/large-review-shows-benefits-of-maternal-covid19-vaccination?

 

 

And more:

COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months

October 1, 2025

 

"A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025. [emphasis added]

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Under a counterfactual scenario in which pregnant women didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19, an estimated 7,148 related hospitalizations of infants (in a population of 1.83 million within the United States) and 3,106 hospitalizations of pregnant women (in a population of 3 million) may have occurred during the study period.

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"Vaccination during pregnancy confers direct protection to newborns through transfer of maternal antibodies, conferring passive immunity to the infant for approximately 6 months, and is associated with significant reductions in infant hospitalizations," the study authors wrote. 

 

"Infants younger than 6 months are not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, and their risk of severe COVID-19 is much higher than other pediatric age groups, often similar to those aged 65 to 74 years in the current epidemiologic era," they added. "Pregnancy also doubles the risk of severe COVID-19."\

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-hospital-stays-infants-pregnant-women-over-18

 

19 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months     

"A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025. [emphasis added]

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... say no more... 

4 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

... say no more... 

 

Credible research by identifiable and credible researchers who publicly stand behind their work and report it to the public -- unlike your never-ending blizzard of anonymous and misinformation spewing internet bloggers.

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Large review shows benefits of maternal COVID-19 vaccination - September 28, 2025

... “COVID-19 vaccination reduced admission, mortality and pregnancy-specific complications,” Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of fetal medicine and surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, told reporters on Saturday. “On the neonatal side, it reduced NICU admission.”

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Looked up the credentials of this young lady Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD as I was curious to know her drive to defend the poisoning of pregnant women and their unborn children. 

 

After reading these ever continuing posts about promoting the COVID-19 vaccines, I have come to the conclusion that there is a level of psychotic dissidence related to these posts. A compulsion that leaves the normal state of reality and it dictated by a quest of persuasion and an invitation to join in the repetitive behavior.  

10 minutes ago, dutch boy said:

After reading these ever continuing posts about promoting the COVID-19 vaccines, I have come to the conclusion that there is a level of psychotic dissidence related to these posts. A compulsion that leaves the normal state of reality and it dictated by a quest of persuasion and an invitation to join in the repetitive behavior.  

 

I think you're confusing me with the OTHER poster whose relentlessly anti-vax threads citing a motley collection of misinformers and anonymous internet bloggers actually dominate this subforum.

 

Mine are just a small trickle of fact-based content from credible and identifiable sources and organizations who publicly stand behind their research and findings -- unlike those who prefer to hide in the misinformation shadows.

 

 

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

10 minutes ago, dutch boy said:

After reading these ever continuing posts about promoting the COVID-19 vaccines, I have come to the conclusion that there is a level of psychotic dissidence related to these posts. A compulsion that leaves the normal state of reality and it dictated by a quest of persuasion and an invitation to join in the repetitive behavior.  

 

I think you're confusing me with the OTHER poster whose relentlessly anti-vax threads citing a motley collection of misinformers and anonymous internet bloggers actually dominate this subforum.

 

No confusion at all, as he wrote: these ever continuing posts about promoting the COVID-19 vaccines

As I wrote earlier, Bill Shakespeare got the 1st Convid jab, to fits of duper's delight from the laughing Right Honourable Minister Mr Mattthew Hancock.

 

Of course Mr Shakes Spear is 81 = 9.

 

'... got to keep sticking   by the rules . . . there's been so much work gone into this...'

 

I'm sure there was a lot of work that had gone into 'it.' 

 

They love the wordplay

 

 

47 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Looked up the credentials of this young lady Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD as I was curious to know her drive to defend the poisoning of pregnant women and their unborn children. 

 

Better than being just another bigoted yank with absolutely no clue what he's talking about.

 

Now, shall I trust the qualified, experienced doctor or some unqualified bigot with an obvious agenda?

1 minute ago, OutofLondon said:

Better than being just another bigoted yank with absolutely no clue what he's talking about.

Now, shall I trust the qualified, experienced doctor or some unqualified bigot with an obvious agenda?

1 - I am not a yank (US citizen)

2 - She is a not an 'experienced' doctor as she got only licensed this year 

12 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

1 - I am not a yank (US citizen)

2 - She is a not an 'experienced' doctor as she got only licensed this year 

 

Ya, her qualifications really don't fit in with your typical misinformation spouting, anonymous anti-vax blogger MO.

 

"Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of fetal medicine and surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital."

 

 

 

And is an author or co-author of nearly 30 journal published articles over the past five years.

 

https://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/nikan-zargarzadeh

 

including:

 

COVID-19 infection in inborn errors of immunity and their phenocopies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Infect Dis (Lond). 2025 Jun; 57(6):483-517.

 

The association between dietary intakes of zinc, vitamin C and COVID-19 severity and related symptoms: A cross-sectional study. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2023 06; 55:244-250

 

COVID-19 Pandemic and Infant Neurodevelopmental Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 10 03; 5(10):e2238941.

 

etc etc etc.

 

 

https://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/nikan-zargarzadeh

 

 

 

48 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Looked up the credentials of this young lady Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD as I was curious to know her drive to defend the poisoning of pregnant women and their unborn children. 

Turns out to be a woke, tattooed, hyper-ambitious lesbo that studied medicine at Teheran University.   

 

Ha Ha Ha Ha ...................GOTCHA  !      

 

note :  i guess it will be difficult to find "hit pieces" against her as wikipedia and others like it are (and AI)  are firmly in control of who gets that kind of narrative.

16 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

2 - She is a not an 'experienced' doctor as she got only licensed this year 

 

 

--AI assist

10 minutes ago, Bacon1 said:

https://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/nikan-zargarzadeh

 

 

 

 

This from her own LinkedIn page > https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikan-zargarzadeh-7a071366/

 

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ECFMG stands for Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

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Ah! Yes! But!......What about that 81 year old woman in Tokyo who had a stroke!!!!!!!