SEATTLE, Wash. -- UW Medicine defied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thursday on the latest change to COVID booster recommendations in pregnant women.

Last week, the CDC, headed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced it was rolling back COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy pregnant women and children.

Kennedy has been a skeptic of vaccine safety for a number of years.

UW Medicine pointed to a in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which followed 240 pregnant women in Washington between March and June 2020.

The study found that pregnant women with COVID-19 had a 3.5 times higher rate of hospitalization related to complications than similarly aged women with COVID-19 that were not pregnant.

A pregnant woman

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