SIU Medicine Minute | Dr. Erica Nelson | OB-GYN
Channel: SIU Medicine
Date: 2023-01-31

Dr. Erica Nelson, Division Chief of General Obstetrics & Gynecology at SIU Medicine, speaks about which vaccines are recommended during pregnancy and how these vaccines help prevent against severe infection. 

"We recommend a variety of vaccines and all vaccines are safe during pregnancy unless they are a live vaccine. The specific vaccines that we recommend right now are the flu vaccine, the COVID booster and the combination that has the tetanus and pertussis, which is for whooping cough," says Dr. Nelson. "The vaccines help prevent these infections to becoming severe and causing significant harm."