Factually inaccurate: The city of Waterloo, Ontario reported 16 stillbirths as of November 2021, not 86, which was within the average based on previous years. Large-scale scientific studies haven’t observed a higher than expected rate of negative pregnancy outcomes in vaccinated women.
Misleading: While Scotland in general has a high level of COVID-19 vaccine coverage, in October 2021, only 32.3% of pregnant women had received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, as compared to 77.6% of the general female population of childbearing age.
Pregnant women are among those at a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, which also increases the risk of pregnancy complications like early birth. Such complications could also have cascading negative effects on their babies. COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of severe COVID-19 in pregnant women, and therefore can reduce the risk of complications and negative outcomes in both the mother and baby.
FULL CLAIM: “I am now incredibly sad to announce there’s a kind of die-off of babies happening, of vaccinated mothers [...] three countries now are reporting babies dying of vaccinated mothers disproportionately. In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 86 babies were born dead between January and July of 2021 [...] In Scotland, there is more than two times the number of babies who died, baby newborns, as of September 2021, and this is a highly vaccinated country as I told you, and now most recently [...] in Rambam Hospital in Haifa, vaccinated mothers...
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