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Petty Officer 1st Class Schenita Little receives prenatal counseling from Cecilia Kipnis, an obstetrician at Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s Family Medicine Clinic.

Doctors urge pregnant women to get COVID vaccine as severe complications rise

Sep 30, 2021 ◇ Rosana Hughes/Courthouse News Service

Doctors and health officials are pleading with pregnant women to get vaccinated as more expectant mothers are ending up in the ICU with COVID-19 — and in some cases, they or their infants are dying — mostly in states with low vaccination rates. Read more»

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Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said people shouldn’t be worried about COVID-19 vaccines causing infertility. He said it is very hard for a vaccine to do something that natural infection doesn’t do, and fertility loss has not been reported even after roughly 67 million people in the U.S. have been infected.

FactCheck: No evidence vaccines impact fertility

Feb 26, 2021 ◇ Catalina Jaramillo

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine released a statement Feb. 5 assuring patients that there’s no evidence that the approved COVID-19 vaccines can impact the capacity to conceive children. Read more»


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