Women with COVID-19 during pregnancy who subsequently received one mRNA vaccine dose had the highest levels of antibodies at delivery compared with infected, unvaccinated women and vaccinated women who were never infected.
Similar levels were observed in umbilical cord blood, which other studies have shown promotes newborn protection.
According to the researchers, pregnant patients in Israel who had a SARS-CoV-2 infection were recommended to receive a single Pfizer-BioNTech dose 3 months after infection “in light of the declining antibody titers among recovering COVID-19 patients, along