The first RSV vaccine for pregnant women has been approved.
The vaccine makes it so babies are born with protection against the respiratory infection that is known to hospitalize up to 80,000 children each year.
Hospitals are commonly filled with wheezing babies in the fall and winter, and in some cases, the virus can be deadly.
The FDA has cleared Pfizer’s maternal vaccination to guard against severe RSV cases for babies from birth to six months old, but the CDC must now issue recommendations for using the vaccine during pregnancy.
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So, we’re trusting them on this one? Why would we take their word on this? Profiteering and political power grabbing have given vaccines a bad name.
It’s too bad as in the past they have been used for the near elimination of Polio, Tuberculosis, smallpox etc. Now they want to sell a new vaccine for everything under the sun and laugh all the way to the bank.