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by lelandfe 1431 days ago
Probably not a "cut corner," as that's unfortunately normal[0][1] (people have been trying to change it for decades now).

Happily Pfizer and Biontech have had extensive clinical trials ongoing for pregnant women since February 2021[2][3], and there was a preliminary analysis done across 35,691 recipients that had good findings[4]. It's something that regulators have paid a lot of attention to, with tens of thousands enrolled in the V-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry.[5]

[0] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/global-regulators...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547525/

[2] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

[3] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04754594

[4] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2104983

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vs...