There Is No Data Indicating that the COVID-19 Vaccine Is Unsafe for Pregnant Women
Truthfulness: False
Claim Publisher and Date:Social Media on 2021-02-25
Claims concerning the safety of pregnant women taking the Pfizer and Moderna s coronavirus vaccines are spreading on social media. For example, a post went viral about a doctor s miscarriage, implying that it was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine (the doctor herself has said this was misinformation). In truth, the miscarraige occured before she received the vaccine.
Dr. Justin Ortiz, who co-chairs the American Thoracic Society s Working Group on Vaccines said Pregnant women are at increased risk of severe COVID-19. Also, many women of childbearing age have increased COVID-19 exposure risks, including healthcare providers and other workers providing essential services. While data are limited, there are no preclinical or clinical data to date indicating an increased risk of COVID-19 vaccination adverse events during pregnancy. The c
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Extrapolating from the limited data from the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trials, clinicians say the products benefits likely outweigh the risks for people with pulmonary hypertension and other rare diseases. The reality is folks with rare diseases will never have enough to do the trials out of the gate, said Tom Maddox, MD, MSc, of BJC HealthCare and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Without hard data, he said, clinicians and researchers can only postulate why COVID vaccines would work differently in people with pulmonary hypertension. What do we understand about how the disease works? How the infection works? How the vaccine works? Is there anything that can cause the vaccine to worsen the disease? Any side effects?