{"id":9530,"date":"2025-12-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:50:15","slug":"covid-shot-reduces-risk-of-severe-illness-premature-birth-in-pregnancy-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-shot-reduces-risk-of-severe-illness-premature-birth-in-pregnancy-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A new study says the COVID-19 vaccine protects pregnant women from getting severely ill or giving birth prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the Canadian Surveillance of COVID-19 in Pregnancy (CANCOVID-Preg) program, led by the University of British Columbia analyzed public health and clinical records of 19,899 pregnant people diagnosed with COVID between April&nbsp;5, 2021 and Dec.&nbsp;31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That time period covered infections with both Delta and Omicron variants in eight provinces and one territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A new study says the COVID-19 vaccine protects pregnant women from getting severely ill or giving birth prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the Canadian Surveillance of COVID-19 in Pregnancy (CANCOVID-Preg) program, led by the University of British Columbia analyzed public health and clinical records of 19,899 pregnant people diagnosed with COVID between April&nbsp;5, 2021 and Dec.&nbsp;31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That time period covered infections with both Delta and Omicron variants in eight provinces and one territory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-shot-reduces-risk-of-severe-illness-premature-birth-in-pregnancy-study-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says<\/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":[83,96,18,319,8,14,1314,15,121,392],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-pregnancy","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-british-columbia","tag-vaccines","tag-vancouver","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","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=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}