Pregnancy, breastfeeding and the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: an ethics-based framework for shared decision-making

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine (Zipursky), University of Toronto; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (Zipursky), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Bioethics Department (Greenberg), Sinai Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Maxwell), Sinai Health; Department of Community and Family Medicine (Bogler), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont. Jonathan.Zipursky@sunnybrook.ca.
² Department of Medicine (Zipursky), University of Toronto; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (Zipursky), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Bioethics Department (Greenberg), Sinai Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Maxwell), Sinai Health; Department of Community and Family Medicine (Bogler), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.

Jonathan S Zipursky et al. CMAJ. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 1;193(9):E312-E314.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.202833. Epub 2021 Jan 27.

¹ Department of Medicine (Zipursky), University of Toronto; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (Zipursky), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Bioethics Department (Greenberg), Sinai Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Maxwell), Sinai Health; Department of Community and Family Medicine (Bogler), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont. Jonathan.Zipursky@sunnybrook.ca.
² Department of Medicine (Zipursky), University of Toronto; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (Zipursky), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Bioethics Department (Greenberg), Sinai Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Maxwell), Sinai Health; Department of Community and Family Medicine (Bogler), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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