COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy: What we know now

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The recent release of text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the federal COVID-19 response, questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has renewed concerns about them increasing miscarriage risk during early pregnancy. 

Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) this week released never-before-seen texts from Fauci’s government-issued iPhone outlining that the former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director initially expressed worries about the multi-dose vaccine increasing miscarriage risk for expectant mothers in the first trimester of pregnancy. 

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