Social media posts claim documents recently released by Pfizer show that the company's Covid-19 vaccine is unsafe for those who are pregnant or breastfeeding. This is false; health regulators and independent medical experts say no serious safety signals have been identified following vaccination during pregnancy, and the image in the posts does not show guidance from the pharmaceutical giant but is in fact outdated advice published by the United Kingdom in 2020.

"Remember, 'The vaccine is safe for pregnant women'- let me introduce the paperwork dumped by Pfizer, 50k pages. Now we know why they wanted to keep this hidden for 50+years," says a May 4, 2022 tweet. It includes an image of vaccine guidance, with red underline to highlight: "COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT126b2 is not recommended during pregnancy."

Posts sharing the same document can also be found on Facebook and Instagram.

The US Food and Drug Administration was ordered to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request to release thousands of pages from the documents it used to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19.

However, a reply to the tweet made clear that the text in the image was not from these FDA documents, but was instead old guidance from the UK government.

AFP searched for keywords from the screenshot and found the original document was published for UK health professionals in December 2020.

A spokesperson for the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) confirmed...

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