Dr. Anne Pham-Huy discusses how to recommend the RSV vaccine to patients who are pregnant.

One vaccine that you may want to consider recommending to your pregnant patients is the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, which is safe to administer in pregnancy.

As of December 2023, a vaccine that protects against RSV was approved for use in Canada for people 32 to 36 weeks pregnant. When recommending this vaccine to any of your pregnant patients, you should let your patient know that getting immunized against RSV while pregnant allows them to provide their baby with short-term protection against severe RSV infection for up to six months after the baby is born.

For more information, please visit Immunize Canada's website: https://immunize.ca/

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