Above video: Doctor debunks myths about pregnant people getting COVID-19 vaccinePosted on June 11, 2021We are collaborating with FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, in an effort to identify misinformation and to ensure news consumers get the facts. This story first appeared on FactCheck.org.The United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union each have systems for reporting side effects that may have been caused by a vaccine.The U.S. has the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS; the U.K. has Yellow Card; and the EU has EudraVigilance.Anyone can submit a report to those systems, even if it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s not clear that the vaccine caused the problem. Public health officials use those submissions to detect patterns that may indicate potential safety issues or side effects.All three systems clearly state that the information they record may not actually be related to the administered vaccine, but could, instead, be coincidental.Despite that fact, social media posts present information from these systems as evidence to support an unsubstantiated claim that COVID-19 vaccines harm pregnancies. One headline that was shared on Instagram as a screenshot meme has been liked more than 72,000 times. It says: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�920 Women Lose Their Unborn Babies After Getting Vaccinated.바카라 게임 웹사이트�That post was shared by Shannon Kroner, who uses the title of doctor, although The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she got her degree, confirmed to us in a phone interview that she received a Ph.D. in psychology, not a medical degree. Kroner runs an organization that advocates for the right to use religious exemptions to avoid childhood vaccines. She did not return a call seeking comment about the claim.The headline she shared came from a conservative website called The True Defender, which published a story taken largely from a British website that published the original claim and describes itself as an alternative to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the lying mainstream media.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The original claim cited unverified reports submitted to VAERS, Yellow Card and EudraVigilance.As we said, submissions to those systems are unverified and the reported issue is not necessarily related to the vaccine.The VAERS website says: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Similarly, the U.K.바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which runs Yellow Card, explained in a recent report: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The nature of Yellow Card reporting means that reported events are not always proven side effects. Some events may have happened anyway, regardless of vaccination. This is particularly the case when millions of people are vaccinated, and especially when most vaccines are being given to the most elderly people and people who have underlying illness.바카라 게임 웹사이트�And the site for EudraVigilance, says (emphasis theirs): 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The information on this website relates to suspected side effects, in other words, effects that have been observed following administration of, or treatment with, a medicine. However, these suspected side effects may not be related to or caused by the medicine.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s also worth noting that, in the case of the VAERS data cited in the meme, most of the reported miscarriages happened in the first trimester. That바카라 게임 웹사이트�s the most common time for a miscarriage to happen and, according to the March of Dimes and the Mayo Clinic, about 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. The actual number is probably higher, though, since many women don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re pregnant at that early stage.More importantly, there is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines pose a risk to pregnancy.Both the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have noted that data is limited on this issue, but there have been no indications that the vaccines are dangerous to pregnant people. They both also note that animal studies showed no safety concerns for the pregnancy or the fetus.Pregnant people were excluded from the clinical trials for the three vaccines available in the U.S., but some pregnancies occurred over the course of the trials and their outcomes were tracked. In the Pfizer/BioNTech trial, 23 pregnancies were reported with no miscarriages in the group that received the vaccine and one in the placebo group. Similarly, in the Moderna trial, there were 13 pregnancies and no miscarriages reported in the group that got the vaccine, with one miscarriage in the placebo group. And in the Johnson & Johnson trial, there were eight pregnancies and two miscarriages 바카라 게임 웹사이트� one each in the vaccine and placebo groups.Since then, studies have suggested that the vaccines are safe during pregnancy. An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April evaluated data from more than 35,000 pregnant people who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines and submitted reports to three different reporting systems 바카라 게임 웹사이트� including VAERS. While it called for further study, the preliminary report found that there was no increased risk during pregnancy for those who received the vaccines.Another study, published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology in May, found no evidence that those two vaccines would damage the placenta during pregnancy.바카라 게임 웹사이트�hese findings add to the growing literature supporting the safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in pregnancy,바카라 게임 웹사이트� it concluded.Public health officials continue to gather information about the effect of the vaccines on pregnancy to capture any safety signals that might crop up.Conversely, there is evidence that pregnant people are at an increased risk for pregnancy complications if they contract COVID-19. While the overall risk of severe illness is low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that 바카라 게임 웹사이트�pregnant people with COVID-19 are at increased risk of preterm birth and might be at increased risk of other adverse pregnancy outcomes compared with pregnant women without COVID-19.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Still, misinformation peddlers have continued to spread unsupported claims tying the vaccines to fertility issues. For more, see our SciCheck stories, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�No Evidence Vaccines Impact Fertility바카라 게임 웹사이트� and 바카라 게임 웹사이트�No Scientific Basis for Vaccine 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Shedding바카라 게임 웹사이트� Claims.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Editor바카라 게임 웹사이트�s note: SciCheck바카라 게임 웹사이트�s COVID-19/Vaccination Project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The foundation has no control over our editorial decisions, and the views expressed in our articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation. 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