Spontaneous Abortions and Policies on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine Use During Pregnancy [pdf]

Very sketchy source.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22institute+for+pure+and+ap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lyons-Weiler

> The authors analyzed the v-safe registry data from 14 December 2020 to 28 February 2021 (an 11- week span), which included 827 pregnancies

It's only a 11 weeks span, so if someone got a vaccine during the first trimester there are three possible outcomes:

* Induced abortion

* Spontaneous abortion

* Pregnancy not finished and not counted

So the data overestimate the number of abortions.

> The use of mRNA vaccines in pregnancy is now generally considered safe for protection against COVID-19 in countries such as New Zealand, USA, and Australia. However, the influential CDC- sponsored article by Shimabukuro et al. (2021) used to support this idea, on closer inspection, provides little assurance, particularly for those exposed in early pregnancy. The study presents falsely reassuring statistics related to the risk of spontaneous abortion in early pregnancy, since the majority of women in the calculation were exposed to the mRNA product after the outcome period was defined (20 weeks’ gestation).

> In this article, we draw attention to these errors and recalculate the risk of this outcome based on the cohort that was exposed to the vaccine before 20 weeks’ gestation. Our re-analysis indicates a cumulative incidence of spontaneous abortion 7 to 8 times higher than the original authors’ results (p < 0.001) and the typical average for pregnancy loss during this time period. In light of these findings, key policy decisions have been made using unreliable and questionable data. We conclude that the claims made using these data on the safety of exposure of women in early pregnancy to mRNA-based vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are unwarranted and recommend that those policy decisions be revisited. The study indicates that at least 81.9% (≥ 104/127) experienced spontaneous abortion following mRNA exposure before 20 weeks, and 92.3% (96/104) of spontaneous abortions occurred before 13 weeks’ gestation