#69 - COMIT: A Maternal Vaccination Policy Tracker by JHU
#69 - COMIT: A Maternal Vaccination Policy Tracker by JHU  
Podcast: GovEx Data Points
Published On: Thu Jul 01 2021
Description: Is it safe for pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19? What if they're breast feeding? The answer, it turns out, is hard to find, and it depends a lot on where in the world you live. Today, we're looking at COMIT (COvid Maternal Immunization Tracker), a Johns Hopkins initiative designed to track and report the world's nations' stances on COVID vaccination for pregnant and lactating people. We'll look at the challenge collecting this data has been and what it tells us about how excluding certain groups from trials and data collection causes disarray in policy-making. Learn more at comitglobal.org