The claim: Document shows Pfizer-BioNTech said vaccine should not be given to women who are pregnant or breastfeeding

As the Food & Drug Administration continues to release thousands of pages per month of documents related to its review of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, dozens of posts on Twitter and Facebook claim that one shows Pfizer warning that breastfeeding and pregnant women should not be vaccinated.

"Pfizer has been releasing their court ordered clinical trial data," one Canadian Facebook user wrote in a May 4 post of the screenshot. "This months release states 'Covid mRNA vaccine is NOT recommended for women who are pregnant and it’s also unknown if covid mRNA is excreted in human milk.' I clearly recall our governments pushing the vaxx on expecting mothers. Wake up."

The posts show a screenshot of an unnamed, unsourced document with several sentences highlighted in red, which say that the vaccine is not recommended during pregnancy and that it "should not be used during breastfeeding" because "it is unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNTI62b2 is excreted in human milk."

However, contrary to the social media claims, the document featured in the post does not come from the documents the FDA has released so far. It also wasn't written by Pfizer.

The quoted document was published by the United Kingdom's drug regulation agency in December 2020, before any significant data was available on the vaccine's efficacy and safety for pregnant and breastfeeding...

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