Two studies released this month found evidence that COVID-19 vaccination of mothers during pregnancy can provide levels of protection to their babies to help avoid severe outcomes from COVID-19.

The studies, one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Friday and one from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) published Feb. 7, found respectively that vaccination during pregnancy helps to prevent hospitalization for COVID-19 in infants and that babies born to vaccinated mothers had higher levels of antibodies than babies born to unvaccinated mothers who were infected with COVID-19.

The MGH study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), showed 98% of infants in the study whose mothers had been vaccinated had detectable levels of the protective Immunoglobulin G (IgG) at two months after birth.

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