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Are spike proteins attacking your unborn baby?

The Claim:

Naomi Wolf, doctor of literature, suggests that those vaccinated during pregnancy may experience placental damage and abnormal blood flow linked to mRNA vaccines, causing death in unborn babies.

The Facts:

Although the tweet suggests that they are pulling facts from the air, they may be relying on a study of vaccinated women. In it, researchers looked at the placentas of pregnant women who received the Sinopharm COVID vaccine (a non-mRNA vaccine) and found a few minor changes. These included decidual vasculopathy (affecting blood vessels in the placenta) in 3 cases, massive subchorionic thrombosis (a blood clot under the placenta) in 1 case, and chronic histiocytic intervillositis (a rare immune response in the placenta) in 1 case.

Despite these findings, all mothers delivered healthy, full-term babies with normal Apgar scores, and the changes were described as mild. The study concluded that these changes were not harmful and were similar to those seen in both vaccinated and unvaccinated mothers in other studies. It supports the safety of the Sinopharm vaccine during pregnancy.

The other finding was that 19 of the 20 mother/baby pairs tested positive for anti-spike antibodies. This just means that those mothers and babies all showed evidence of vaccine-induced immunity, more evidence that vaccination during pregnancy helps protect the newborn.

Disclaimer: Science is always evolving and our understanding of these topics may have evolved too since this was originally posted. Be sure to check out our most recent posts and browse the latest Just the Facts Topics for the latest.

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