FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Maternal Tdap Vaccination Protects Newborns From Pertussis

By Landon Gray

Tdap vaccination during pregnancy may offer protection to newborns from pertussis during the first two months of life, when they are most vulnerable to the disease, according to a CDC study.

This is the first instance of which researchers have analyzed population trends in the United States in infant pertussis cases since the maternal vaccination strategy was initiated in 2011.

Researchers from the CDC tracked nearly 60,000 reports of infants with pertussis for two decades between