CLAIM: The European Union is now advising that pregnant women should not receive COVID-19 vaccines because of the risk of infertility and miscarriage.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The European Medicines Agency continues to support COVID-19 immunizations for pregnant women, the agency confirmed. An announcement that concerns menstrual bleeding, which is being cited to spread the false claim, is from October 2022 and explicitly stated that the vaccines are still safe before and during pregnancy.
THE FACTS: There is no evidence the vaccines cause fertility issues in men or women. But spurious claims about the vaccines continue to swirl online, more than two years since their December 2020 debut.
Social media users this week falsely asserted that the European Union had changed its tune on the vaccines by now recommending against pregnant women receiving the shots.
“The European Union is now warning pregnant women not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to the possibility of infertility and miscarriage,” reads one popular Wednesday tweet that was also shared on Instagram.
But there was no such announcement, the European Medicines Agency confirmed to The Associated Press.
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