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Obligatory Les Nessman plug:
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COVID-19 vaccines don’t affect fertility, study asserts
January 23, 2022
A recent study has quashed rumours that COVID-19 vaccination leads to infertility.
The study published in the ‘American Journal of Epidemiology’ asserts that COVID-19 vaccination does not appear to affect fertility.
The prospective study of couples trying to conceive found no association between COVID-19 vaccination and fecundability – the probability of conception per menstrual cycle – in female or male partners who received the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
In contrast, the findings indicated that COVID-19 infection among males may temporarily reduce fertility – an outcome that could be avoidable through vaccination.
“Many reproductive-aged individuals have cited concerns about fertility as a reason for remaining unvaccinated,” said study lead author Dr Amelia Wesselink , research assistant professor of epidemiology at BUSPH.
“Our study shows for the first time that COVID-19 vaccination in either partner is unrelated to fertility among couples trying to conceive through intercourse. Time-to-pregnancy was very similar regardless of vaccination status,” she added.
Wesselink and colleagues analysed survey data on COVID-19 vaccination and infection, and fecundability, among female and male participants in the BUSPH-based Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO), an ongoing NIH-funded study that enrolls women trying to conceive and follows them from preconception through six months after delivery.
Participants included 2,126 women in the US and Canada who provided information on sociodemographics, lifestyle, medical factors, and characteristics of their partners from December 2020 to September 2021, and the participants were followed in the study through November 2021.
The researchers calculated the per menstrual cycle probability of conception using self-reported dates of participants’ last menstrual period, typical menstrual cycle length, and pregnancy status. Fertility rates among female participants who received at least one dose of a vaccine were nearly identical to unvaccinated female participants.
Fecundability was also similar for male partners who had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine compared with unvaccinated male participants. Additional analyses that considered the number of vaccine doses, the brand of vaccine, infertility history, occupation, and the geographic region also indicated no effect of vaccination on fertility.
While COVID-19 infection was not strongly associated with fertility, men who tested positive for COVID within 60 days of a given cycle had reduced fertility compared to men who never tested positive, or men who tested positive at least 60 days prior. This data supported previous research that has linked COVID-19 infection in men with poor sperm quality and other reproductive dysfunction.
“These data provide reassuring evidence that COVID vaccination in either partner does not affect fertility among couples trying to conceive,” said study senior author Dr Lauren Wise , professor of epidemiology at BUSPH.
“The prospective study design, large sample size, and geographically heterogeneous study population are study strengths, as was our control for many variables such as age, socioeconomic status, pre-existing health conditions, occupation, and stress levels,” she added.
The new data also help quell concerns about COVID-19 vaccines and fertility that arose from anecdotal reports of females experiencing menstrual cycle changes following vaccination.
Source: ANI
A recent study has quashed rumours that COVID-19 vaccination leads to infertility.
I doubt it. Rumors are pretty much immortal these days
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There was a truck in front of me with the bumper sticker “Not Vaccinated - Stay Back 300 Feet” I heeded his request.
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Since we don’t have a “Democrats Say The Darndest Things” thread, I’ll just post this here.
RFK Jr’s comment that drew the criticism:
I have no words.
yikes, aren’t the kennedy’s supposed to be woke? what a dipshit.
his wife condemned his words, but how can she even stand to be married to him?
No clue. It was already established that he was a dipshit anti-vaxxer peddling the “vaccines cause autism” line.
But this is a whole new level of asshattery.
It would not shock me if a divorce is announced in the next 5-6 months. It won’t shock me either way, but it sounds like the wife is an appropriate level of horrified, which is a time when many marriages are prone to fall apart.
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his line didn’t even make any sense. who is stopping anti-vaxxers from hiding in an attic? the comparison makes no sense at all.
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He was talking about employer mandates, but still. Anne’s father both couldn’t work at his job and ALSO had to hide in an attic with 7 other people only to have the others later murdered, so yeah, slightly worse than being strongly encouraged to get a life-saving vaccine. 
so his point was that anne frank could hide in an attic to escape the nazis while anti-vaxxers can’t hide in an attic and escape an employer mandate?
that analogy is insane.
anti-vaxxers really love comparing vaccine mandates to nazi germany though.
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That’s my understanding of his point, yes.
Insane doesn’t even begin to cover it. It’s an insult to mentally insane people.
yeah, insane isn’t the right word. it’s idiotic. he’s an idiot.
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Yep
ETA: Although maybe that’s an insult to idiots.
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Yeah that’s about as dumb fuck a statement as you can make. RFK Jr. has been an idiot about a number of things for quite some time but that one really takes the cake for him.
Reason 84,297 why RFK Jr’s statement is beyond idiotic: Anne Frank hid in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, not Germany.
Germany is where she died in a concentration camp.
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Another, maybe extremely obvious point, she couldn’t stop being Jewish
He could choose to just get the shot
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I wonder if he’s senile? That’s such a stupid statement that it’s hard to believe a competent politician would utter it. And he used to be a competent politician.