The Covid Vaccine Fertility and Miscarriage Study is an ongoing data collection effort
being conducted here at IVF1. This study compares the fertility and miscarriage outcomes of
women who have received vaccination against Covid 19, women who have been infected with
Covid 19, those who had both and those who had neither.
Part 1 of the study has now been published in a peer review medical journal. It is available
to view here. If you prefer to read the medical journal, the link is in the description below.
Since we released that episode, it has been viewed over 140,000 times. I have received
a number of questions and comments about the study and about Covid vaccines and fertility
in general. Today, I am going to reveal more data from the study and answer some viewer
questions, some serious and some humorous.
Some people have commented that since the study did not show any adverse impact on fertility
or miscarriage, that I must be on the payroll of a pharmaceutical company. I am not. I am
a board certified fertility expert at IVF1 in the Naperville Fertility Center in the
USA. I do not work for any pharmaceutical companies nor have I in the past. The study
did not receive any funding from any pharmaceutical companies or from any governmental agency.
I did all of the patient care and data collection myself.
Some have questioned how it is possible to have results about fertility since it hasn’t
yet been 9 months since the study began. Let's go over some basics. Fertility is about the
ability to BECOME pregnant. In 2021, there are many ways in which we can determine whether
a woman has become pregnant. There are blood tests and urine tests which measure the pregnancy
hormone hCG and there are ultrasounds which can show a pregnancy inside the body. It is
not necessary to wait 9 months to determine if a woman has become pregnant.
Our study looked at women who were attempting to become pregnant by using IVF. During this
process an embryo is placed into the uterus. If the embryo implants, she is pregnant! If
it does not implant, she is not pregnant. We could accurately determine whether a pregnancy
was established by a blood test done 8 days after placing the embryo into the uterus.
The study began in early January. Since then, we have performed 200 embryos transfers and
subsequently obtained a blood pregnancy test. 44% of the transfers were in women who had
covid antibodies in their blood. A little less than- ⅔ of those were from vaccination,
about ⅓ from previous infection and just a few women who had infection and then were
vaccinated later.
We performed statistical analysis of the results to determine whether one group was any better
or worse than the other.
77% of the embryo transfers in women without covid antibodies resulted in a pregnancy.
76% of the transfers in previously vaccinated women resulted in pregnancy and 71% of the
women with previous infection became pregnant. Although it may seem like women with previous
infection had a lower pregnancy rate, statistical analysis showed that this group was no different
than the other. The fertility of the vaccinated women was no different than the non vaccinated
group
Lets talk about miscarriage next. A miscarriage is defined as the loss of a pregnancy that
was implanted in the uterus during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. However, the vast majority
of miscarriages occur in the first several weeks of pregnancy. We followed these pregnancies
until we were able to see fetal heart motion at least twice a week apart. Only a tiny percentage
of miscarriages occur after a fetus with heart motion has been seen on ultrasound. This is
why fertility doctors will send their patients back to their obstetricians after seeing heart
motion, its because the likelihood of miscarriage happening after that is so small.
The miscarriage rate in our study was 30.7% in the women who did NOT receive the vaccine,
30.6% in those who did receive the vaccine and 28.9% in thise with previous infection.
Statistical analysis? No difference between these three groups.
In humans, many miscarriages are due to chromosome abnormalities in the embryo. As a result,
many of our IVF patients choose to test their embryos for chromosome abnormalities. This
is known as PGT. This is an excellent group to study miscarriages since we don’t have
to worry about abnormal embryos skewing the data.
We looked at the miscarriage rate in each group for those couples that tested their
embryos. Women who were vaccinated miscarried 26.3% of the time. Women who were NOT vaccinated
miscarried 29.4% of the time. Women with previous infection miscarried 27% of the time. Statistical
analysis? No difference between the three groups.
Covid vaccination was not associated with a higher rate of miscarriage. This matches
the results found in the Covid vaccine trials conducted by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and
Johnson. Remember, in those studies women were told not to get pregnant, but some did
anyway, by accident. Half of the women in the trials got the actual vaccine but the
other half did not. If we compare the miscarriage rates between those that got the vaccine and
those that didn’t, we find that the vaccine group had half as many miscarriages as the
non vaccine group.
Many countries, including the US, have been closely monitoring for vaccine problems or
side effects. The US developed the V-safe program which sends text messages to participants
with weblinks to a survey that asks about adverse reactions and health status. This
study reported on pregnancy outcomes reported through the V-safe program. Roughly 35,000
women of reproductive age were identified. 13.5% of them reported a positive pregnancy
test after receiving one of the covid vaccines. 12.6% of them reported a miscarriage. This
is well within the range expected for a population study like this.
For those of you keeping track. First, they said that every woman who received the vaccine
would become sterile and never be able to become pregnant again because the vaccine
was part of a secret plot to depopulate the planet. Then our study and others showed that
women were getting pregnant after vaccination. Then they said, well those women will have
infertility. Which we showed is not the case. Next, they argued that the vaccine will cause
more miscarriages, which multiple studies have now shown is also not true.
This is a sure fire indicator of a conspiracy theory. Once you provide evidence that it
is untrue, they move the goalposts. One viewer commented “If you had done any research,
you would know that the nanobots activate 2-3 years after taking vaccines. You seem
very dumb to think it activates right away.” Another states, that “Studies prove that
the effects won’t show up for eight generations”. Given that there are about 4 generations per
century, that means we can’t declare anything safe for 200 years. That leaves us with no
proven safe vaccines, but also no proven safe medications, and for that matter, no flying
in airplanes, driving in cars, listening to the radio, watching television or typing ridiculous
comments on YouTube videos.
Look folks. We live in a society. Together. If we were at war, we would all need to pull
together to fight our enemy for the common good. Well guess what? We are at war. Our
enemy is small, deadly and relentless. The more we let this enemy spread from person
to person, the more it changes and the harder it becomes to stop. Vaccination is a potent
weapon against this enemy. Getting a vaccine not only protects you, it protects those around
you. Especially the most vulnerable members of our society. Together, and only together,
we can win this war.