Itâs a myth that COVID-19 vaccines can impact fertility, but itâs a myth thatâs keeping many young adult from getting immunized, doctors say.
âSome of the main reasons people are nervous about getting vaccinated are these myths about the mRNA vaccines potentially impacting fertility,â said Dr. Rosemary Olivero, a pediatric infection disease specialist with Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. âAnd I just want to say that those myths have been busted. They are not true.
Unfortunately, she said, itâs a persistent myth âthatâs really hurting our ability to combat the pandemic with the vaccine. Not only are we over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are about five months into giving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to literally millions of vaccine recipients, and there has been no impact on fertility either from natural COVID-19 infection, or from the mRNA vaccines.
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No, COVID-19 vaccines do not impact fertility
Updated May 08, 2021;
Posted May 07, 2021
A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a Family Health Center pop up vaccine clinic at King-Westwood Elementary School in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Family Health Center partnered with Kalamazoo Public Schools and Bronson Methodist Hospital to give the Pfizer vaccine to those 16 and older. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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It’s a myth that COVID-19 vaccines can impact fertility, but it’s a myth that’s keeping many young adult from getting immunized, doctors say.
“Some of the main reasons people are nervous about getting vaccinated are these myths about the mRNA vaccines potentially impacting fertility,” said Dr. Rosemary Olivero, a pediatric infection disease specialist with Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. “And I just want to say that those myths have been busted. They are not true.
What should I know about COVID-19 vaccines if I’m pregnant? AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin
An obstetrician in Normal says new guidance about the safety of COVID vaccines is reducing hesitancy among some pregnant women.
Dr. Nona Fulk chairs the OBYGN department at Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal. In this edition of WGLT’s Sound Health, Fulk said she recommends the vaccine, especially given the risks linked to COVID-19.
GREG LINDER Dr. Nona Fulk
“Pregnant women can get COVID and when those women get COVID, the effects from it can be more severe than it is for anyone who is not. Pregnant women have a compromised immune system, so they are more likely to end up in the hospital, in the ICU, on a respirator, and the risk of death is higher for those women too,” Fulk said.
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Gynecologists say that there is no data so far that suggests a womanâs immunity will get hampered on taking the COVID-19 vaccination. File photo
Updated: May 7, 2021, 08:10 AM IST
As the COVID-19 vaccination drive is in full swing, a very common question lingering in minds of women is that if there a link between the vaccine and periods.
Experts are quashing claims that say vaccination affects the menstrual cycle and said that there is no such scientific evidence to prove that and it’s a baseless post being circulated on social media.