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What the COVID? How the infertility scare came out and what women have to say about it
How the vaccine infertility scare came to be
Let’s start with this: The COVID-19 vaccine does not cause infertility. All the talk about risking infertility as a result of the vaccine is a serious case of misinformation. False information. A myth. An unfounded notion.
How can you know? While it’s understandable to have concerns around the COVID-19 vaccine and reproductive health, there is no scientific cause for concern. Why? It’s quite simple actually. The vaccine does not interact with your reproductive organs.
The vaccine plays with the immune system to create antibodies that fight the spike protein on the coronavirus. It does not fight the proteins in the placenta. The spike proteins and placenta proteins are not similar-that was a myth that started online.
So why the scare? And why are we still circulating this myth?
One, it’s hard to rein in a myth once it’s gained social media ground. Two, it’s hard to reassure the public when the scare is tied to something so very basically human: reproduction.
Here’s how it all started.
On December 1, 2020, two doctors requested the Pfizer mRNA vaccine to be withheld from…
