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Health experts say pregnant people with or without the vaccine need to continue to remain on high alert when it comes to COVID-19 by following safety protocols, including face mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.

\"What I tell my patients is the one thing I know for sure is that pregnant women can get COVID,\" Dr. Rashmi Rao, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, told \"GMA\" last year. \"We’re not seeing huge rates of any adverse fetal outcomes yet, but, again, that’s still to be determined, because we have a long way to go with collecting information.\"

ABC News' Sony Salzman and Eric Strauss contributed to this report.

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