dropdeadfred, Nope you are - Fact Check-There is no evidence to suggest COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of miscarriage
"you're monsters Number of women to lose their unborn child after having the Covid Vaccine increases by 2000% in just fourteen weeks"
Without opening yours in case of catching something, you are the monsters. All the evidence points to you.
April 1, 20212:18 AM Updated 2 months ago
By Reuters Fact Check
7 Min Read
A widely shared blog?post has claimed to have calculated an?increase in miscarriages in the United Kingdom “as a result of” expectant mothers getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The UK’s medicines regulator told Reuters there is no evidence to support this claim, and?says?the figures used in the blog have?been taken out of context.
The article cites data taken from?weekly reports by the?Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s Yellow Card scheme that monitors possible side effects of vaccines (here).?It?notes?that six miscarriages occurred after a COVID-19 vaccination between Dec. 9 and Jan. 24. This figure increases?to 28 between Jan. 24 and March 7. This is 22 miscarriages?being added to the total, or?a rise of?366.6%, according to the writers.
“Just six weeks separate the first and seventh report, and the shocking increase in the number of women losing their unborn and?newborn?child in that time due to having either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is appalling,” the blog adds.
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[Same old manipulative emotion-magnets set out to fool thosel most susceptible to propagandist's misinformation.]
However, these figures have been taken out of context, having failed to mention the overall increase in?the?number of vaccines being administered. This, according to experts speaking to Reuters, must then be compared to the expected frequency of miscarriages occurring in the UK.
When putting the figures into context, the MHRA told Reuters: “There is no pattern to suggest an elevated risk of miscarriage related to exposure to the COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy. The numbers of people who have received a 1st dose COVID-19 vaccination increased from 1,340,043 to 4,322,791 for the same time frame. At least half of these would be expected to be women, so the number of women of child-bearing age?(taking the vaccine)?is estimated to have increased from 665,424 to 2,146,866 for the same time frame.”
“Sadly, miscarriage is estimated to occur in about 1 in 4 pregnancies (equal to 25 in 100) in the UK (outside of the pandemic) and most occur in the first 12 weeks (first trimester) of pregnancy, so some miscarriages would be expected to occur following vaccination purely by chance.”
The MHRA added that it was closely monitoring a small number of miscarriage reports following vaccine exposure in the first 12 weeks of?pregnancy, but?said?there was “no pattern” to suggest?an increased risk.?Guidance published by the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists and the British Fertility Society in February said there?was?“absolutely no evidence” that COVID-19 vaccines affect the fertility of women or men,?and rallied against “blatant misinformation” circulating online (here).
Meanwhile, the blog post?said that a stillbirth?had also?occurred after the expectant mother received the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine,?adding: “Shockingly this has not been labelled as a fatality.” The MHRA?has?challenged this claim.
It told Reuters that some events can be reported incorrectly and confirmed that “no actual stillbirths” have been reported to the agency to date. The MHRA?then?contextualised one report of a baby born prematurely after the mother was given a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, saying premature births occur in?around eight in 100 births in the UK. Therefore, some would be expected to occur following vaccination “purely by chance”.
Finally, the blog questioned?the change of government advice from not recommending a COVID-19 vaccine to pregnant women to saying the jab should only be considered if the benefits outweigh the risks.
In response, the MHRA said: “Our initial advice for the?Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine?was that pregnancy should be excluded before vaccination in women of childbearing?age and?avoided for at least 2 months after the second dose of vaccine. Following new data from pre-clinical studies, this advice no longer applies. This data did not identify any evidence for concern for use of the vaccine in pregnancy.”
The agency?clarified that, although current advice does not routinely recommend COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women due to limited data, the available information does not raise safety concerns.??This means?individuals at a high risk?of consequences from?COVID-19 could?discuss?getting vaccinated with a doctor.
Missing context.?There is no evidence to suggest COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of miscarriage. Data cited in the blog post?has?missed?crucial context related to the?overall?number?of?vaccinations administered in the time frame, along with the number of miscarriages?expected?to?occur?among the population.
“There’s no clear plausible reason to think that the vaccine would harm a fetus or a baby who’s breastfeeding in any way,” said Boslett. “This is not a live virus vaccine, and the mRNA is likely going to stay right in the arm where it’s injected and get taken up by the cells there. The mRNA is quickly degraded by the body after it does its job. We do not believe that the mRNA or spike protein will travel to the developing fetus or cause harm.”
A reasonable concern might be fever and other immune system reactions to the vaccine. “We know that in some cases, if a woman develops a high fever very early on in pregnancy, there have been some concerns historically over the contribution of fever to neural tube defects, but the evidence isn’t clear,” said Boslett. She recommends that if a woman develops fever after the vaccine, she should take Tylenol. “It’s not a reason to not get the vaccine, because if you think about it, if you get COVID, you may develop a fever and all kinds of other terrible immune responses. The vaccine is really protecting women against much more severe outcomes from COVID.”
It’s possible that women who are recently vaccinated may be able to pass some protective antibodies to the fetus through the placenta or to their baby through breastmilk, said Boslett. There is even ongoing research into extracting IgA antibodies from breastmilk to use for COVID-19 prevention in adults.
dropdeadfred, How many millions would you have suffer desease and/or die to satisfy your sadly anti-social, anti-abortion stance. The cells used were "electively aborted" decades ago. As DragonBear said, better used for good than dumped in the waste bin.
Abortion opponents protest COVID-19 vaccines’ use of fetal cells [...] Cells derived from elective abortions have been used since the 1960s to manufacture vaccines, including current vaccines against rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, and shingles. They have also been used to make approved drugs against diseases including hemophilia, rheumatoid arthritis, and cystic fibrosis. Now, research groups around the world are working to develop more than 130 candidate vaccines against COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization; 10 had entered human trials as of 2 June. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162476441