Hi! I wrote a longer comment last week and lost it, so here are the highlights:
1. Thanks for the newsletter! It is useful to me.
2. Having known you a little bit for a long time, I have a big warm feeling for the way you have used your gifts and experience to be useful to your community in a time of great need. I hope it gives you a lot of satisfaction and meaning.
3. Your report on the safety data in pregnancy seems to do a common thing that I hate: ignore the pregnant adult's health and experience in favor of focusing only on the health and survival of embryos, fetuses, and babies.
4. I should have subscribed a long time ago and finally did.
3: You *should* hate that. I had intended to include something about adverse events in that report, and omitted it--entirely accidentally. If you're referring to the first study I covered, that is. That study had very limited information on adverse events and all of it was in line with the original clinical trials in the general population. There was very little to report that was of note and the authors included very little commentary upon what they did have. Which, is what I had meant to say. With so little to say, it seems that I didn't actually commit that to writing despite my intent--my mistake.
For the second report, much more useful information on serious adverse events was included, and I did note the following: "On to safety. There were 68 patients who experienced adverse events. None were severe and all lasted for less than one day."
The reality is, there is not much to report here. Pregnant people don't seem to experience any differences in safety profile with mRNA vaccines, based on these early data. But, I regret that I didn't highlight that in the first report and I'm glad you said something.
Hi! I wrote a longer comment last week and lost it, so here are the highlights:
1. Thanks for the newsletter! It is useful to me.
2. Having known you a little bit for a long time, I have a big warm feeling for the way you have used your gifts and experience to be useful to your community in a time of great need. I hope it gives you a lot of satisfaction and meaning.
3. Your report on the safety data in pregnancy seems to do a common thing that I hate: ignore the pregnant adult's health and experience in favor of focusing only on the health and survival of embryos, fetuses, and babies.
4. I should have subscribed a long time ago and finally did.
1/2/4: Thank you!
3: You *should* hate that. I had intended to include something about adverse events in that report, and omitted it--entirely accidentally. If you're referring to the first study I covered, that is. That study had very limited information on adverse events and all of it was in line with the original clinical trials in the general population. There was very little to report that was of note and the authors included very little commentary upon what they did have. Which, is what I had meant to say. With so little to say, it seems that I didn't actually commit that to writing despite my intent--my mistake.
For the second report, much more useful information on serious adverse events was included, and I did note the following: "On to safety. There were 68 patients who experienced adverse events. None were severe and all lasted for less than one day."
The reality is, there is not much to report here. Pregnant people don't seem to experience any differences in safety profile with mRNA vaccines, based on these early data. But, I regret that I didn't highlight that in the first report and I'm glad you said something.