During trying times, myths and falsehoods sprout like mushrooms after rainfall. One of many that has emerged so far during the Covid-19 pandemic is that vaccines against the disease will cause infertility in women. It won’t. The likely origin of this myth is a letter sent to the European Medicines Agency (the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) by two European anti-vaccination propagandists. They erroneously claimed that the “vaccine contains a spike protein called syncytin-1 that is vital for the human placenta in women.”
Shattering the infertility myth: What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy https://t.co/Vj8PP7mkvJ via @statnews
— CheckRare (@CheckRare) March 28, 2021
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