For the first time, two preventive treatments are available that dramatically reduce the risk of severe RSV.
One is a maternal RSV vaccine given toward the end of pregnancy, and a second option is a shot of protective antibodies given to babies as early as the first week of life. Both are about 80% effective at preventing severe complications from RSV.
The new maternal RSV vaccine is 82% effective at preventing severe complications from RSV within the first 3 months of life, and remained 69% effective at the 6-month point, according to data from the FDA. In August, the FDARSV can lead to a condition called bronchiolitis, which causes the small airways in the lungs to swell and results in wheezing and coughing that is exhausting. Babies who are hospitalized may need fluids and a tube guided into the windpipe to help them breathe.
“The strategy is we give Mom an injection, the mom makes antibodies, the antibodies go through the placenta and go to the fetus, and then they’re born with their protection,” Ault explained. 55% of pregnant people reported getting a Tdap shot, similar to 57% of pregnant people who said they got it during the
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