Coronavirus vaccines do not harm in vitro fertilization success rates, giving new reassurance to couples battling infertility that immunizing won’t harm them, the authors of a new Israeli study told the Times of Israel on Thursday.
Chances of IVF pregnancy are also unaffected as a result of people catching COVID-19, the research found, in a conclusion that will be comforting to many after the sky-high Omicron infections in recent weeks.
Doctors found that there was no difference in pregnancy rates between IVF women they monitored who had received Pfizer coronavirus vaccines, and other women who hadn’t, or based on whether or not women had been infected.
They checked 428 women aged 38 or under, some of them vaccinated with Pfizer coronavirus shots and some not, between January 2021 and August 2021. In total, the women went through 672 embryo transfers. Regardless of whether or not the women were vaccinated and unaffected by COVID infection, around a quarter of the transfers led to pregnancies.
There was “no difference in clinical outcome, reflecting no detrimental effect on previous infection or vaccination,” wrote a team led by Prof. Raoul Orvieto, director of the infertility and IVF institute at Sheba Medical Center, in peer-reviewed research, published recently in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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