{"id":9219,"date":"2025-09-30T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:43:08","slug":"covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-of-hospital-stays-in-infants-pregnant-women-over-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-of-hospital-stays-in-infants-pregnant-women-over-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US modeling <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/article-abstract\/2839027#250558319\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> published yesterday in <em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford University\u2013led research team analyzed COVID-NET surveillance data on COVID-19 hospitalization rates in infants younger than 6&nbsp;months and incidence data on pregnant women aged 18 to 49 years under a relative risk of 2.65. The aim was to estimate the health impact of vaccination during pregnancy, mainly during the second or third trimester.<\/p>\n<p>The team also used recent COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates, including a 35% reduction in COVID-19 hospitalization risk in young infants and a 33%&nbsp;VE in adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US modeling <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/article-abstract\/2839027#250558319\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> published yesterday in <em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford University\u2013led research team analyzed COVID-NET surveillance data on COVID-19 hospitalization rates in infants younger than 6&nbsp;months and incidence data on pregnant women aged 18 to 49 years under a relative risk of 2.65. The aim was to estimate the health impact of vaccination during pregnancy, mainly during the second or third trimester.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-of-hospital-stays-in-infants-pregnant-women-over-18-months\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,18,524,319,8,14,51,15],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-infants","tag-pregnancy","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}