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Fauci Privately Warned COVID-19 Shot Could ‘Theoretically’ Trigger Miscarriage Risk, Newly Released Texts Show

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in private text messages with other federal health officials that the COVID-19 vaccine could “theoretically” pose a risk of miscarriage for pregnant women after the second dose.

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases noted that because “many people have a cytokine storm and fever after the second dose” of the vaccine, “this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” The January 2021 text thread took place during the early weeks of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

A cytokine storm occurs when the body releases too many small proteins called cytokines into the blood too fast, which causes extreme swelling and can lead to organ failure and death, according to the National Institutes of Health.

However, Fauci and other top health officials in the Biden administration said afterward that pregnant women should get the vaccine.

In August 2021, Fauci said, “Tens and tens, and tens of thousands of women who have been followed by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], who have been vaccinated when they were pregnant, there’s no indication whatsoever that there’s any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn’t vaccinated … it’s pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated.”

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as well as the Senate........

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