Each year, as flu season peaks, medical professionals who take care of pregnant women have to gear up to combat misinformation around the influenza vaccine.
"We've always seen fear or distrust of not wanting to get a flu vaccine in pregnancy," Melissa Simon, an obstetrician gynecologist at Northwestern Medicine, told Salon. "Every year we have to be very consistent and start that very clear, consistent messaging that the flu vaccine is indeed very well studied in pregnancy, it's very safe in pregnancy, and it actually improves outcomes."
