{"id":63378,"date":"2021-04-26T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=63378"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:46:38","slug":"pregnant-individuals-and-the-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/pregnant-individuals-and-the-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant individuals and the COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant individuals are eligible to receive their COVID-19 vaccine through their local Public Health Unit (PHU) immunization clinic by booking an appointment through the provincial call centre at 1-888-999-6488.<\/p>\n<p>You do not require a letter from your physician to receive the vaccine. If you have questions, you may wish to discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccine during pregnancy at your next scheduled OB appointment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapublichealth.ca\/en\/public-health-topics\/covid-19-vaccine.aspx#Clients-who-are-pregnant-or-clients-with-highest-risk-health-conditions-and-their-caregivers\">Ottawa Public Health\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additional resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sogc.org\/common\/Uploaded%20files\/Latest%20News\/SOGC_Statement_COVID-19_Vaccination_in_Pregnancy.pdf\">The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Canada (SOGC) Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmch.on.ca\/covid-19vaccine\/\">Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH) COVID-19 Vaccine Information Page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant individuals are eligible to receive their COVID-19 vaccine through their local Public Health Unit (PHU) immunization clinic by booking an appointment through the provincial call centre at 1-888-999-6488. You do not require a letter from your physician to receive the vaccine. If you have questions, you may wish to discuss the risks and benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}