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No Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Miscarriages

Mustafa Afandy Mustafa Afandy
Health
11th November 2021
No Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Miscarriages
There is no evidence to support the circulating claim (Getty).

The Claim

COVID-19 vaccination causes miscarriages.

Emerging story

Numerous users claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine would result in miscarriages in pregnant women. They attempted to substantiate their claim by citing statistics from various websites. For example, one user shared statistics indicating an alleged 2,508 miscarriages in the United States as a result of the experimental COVID-19 vaccine.

Misbar’s Analysis

According to Misbar's investigation, the widely reported claim is false. There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine causes miscarriages, according to experts. Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine found no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine increases the risk of miscarriage or spontaneous abortion in the first trimester.

After the vaccination of COVID-19 during pregnancy, some women had spontaneous abortions. This was investigated in another study published in JAMA. According to a new study, women who had miscarriages were not found to have an increased risk of COVID-19 vaccine exposure in the previous 28 days compared to women who were still pregnant. Another study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine caused miscarriages.

Many false claims about the COVID-19 vaccine, fertility, and miscarriages have been widely disseminated in recent months, even in academic circles. Using published data from pregnant women who received the COVID-19 vaccine, users could establish a causal link between the vaccine and miscarriage. The data, however, was susceptible to user error. For example, data from a report published on the Open VAERS website generated one of the circulating statistics. Open VAERS reported 2,508 reports of miscarriages following the COVID-19 vaccination, but it did not claim that the vaccines were responsible for those miscarriages. VAERS clarified that its data alone could not determine whether the vaccine caused the reported adverse event to correct such misrepresentation.

It's important to note that some academics are now calling for a reassessment of the findings. There is no evidence to support a link between taking the COVID-19 vaccine and having a miscarriage, however, based on the results of Misbar's research.

Misbar’s Classification

Misleading

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