‘It’s really reassuring.’
That is Dr Wendy Burton, Chair of RACGP Specific Interests Antenatal and Postnatal Care, commenting on new research conducted in the United States on COVID-19 vaccination and miscarriage.
Published in JAMA, researchers looked at 105,446 pregnancies, including 13,160 miscarriages and 92,286 pregnancies that were ongoing by the end of the study.
Overall, 7.8% of women received one or two doses of Pfizer, 6% received one or more doses of Moderna, and 0.5% received a dose of Janssen in the month prior and before 20 weeks’ gestation, and found no association between vaccination and miscarriage.
‘Spontaneous abortions did not have an increased odds of exposure to a COVID-19 vaccination in the prior 28 days compared with ongoing pregnancies,’ the authors wrote.
Dr Burton said the findings provide further evidence for GPs to reassure both pregnant women, as well as those planning to conceive, of the benefits of vaccination.
‘It’s been a really widespread myth online, which has unfortunately made its way into our maternity services, that there is a problem with fertility associated with the vaccine,’ she told
newsGP.
Settle down.