Study Finds 37 Safety Signals for COVID Vaccines During Pregnancy, CDC Still Urges Women to Get the Shots

Miscarriage, preeclampsia, cervical insufficiency, chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformations, premature birth, stillbirth, newborn asphyxia and newborn…

Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

An analysis of reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) found safety signals for 37 adverse events when COVID-19 vaccines were administered during pregnancy.

Miscarriage, preeclampsia, cervical insufficiency, chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformations, premature birth, stillbirth, newborn asphyxia and newborn death were among the signals flagged by the study, published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Science, Public Health Policy and the Law.

The analysts identified the signals by comparing the rates of adverse events for the COVID-19 vaccines given during pregnancy to the same adverse events following the flu vaccine and all other vaccines when administered to pregnant women.

This method, called proportional reporting ratio (PRR), is the same one used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to analyze VAERS data to identify safety signals for the COVID-19 vaccines.

Pregnant women were excluded from the original COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy studies.

VAERS, run jointly by the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), functions as “the nation’s early warning system” for vaccine safety issues. Safety signals mean a condition may be linked to a vaccine and further analysis is required to confirm the link.

The researchers found the safety signals for the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy consistently exceeded the thresholds set by the CDC and FDA for defining a signal, often by a significant margin.

On average, adverse pregnancy events were reported 69.2 times more frequently after the COVID-19 shot relative to other vaccines.

“We found unacceptably high breaches in safety signals for 37 AEs [adverse events] after COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women,” the researchers concluded. They said the magnitude of the safety signals was “cause for alarm.”

Several of the researchers, including Dr. James A. Thorp, Dr. Daniel C. McDyer and Dr. Kimberly Biss are also practicing obstetricians/gynecologists. They noted the adverse events identified are consistent with their extensive clinical observations.

Thorp, co-author with Celia Farber of the forthcoming book, “Sacrifice: How the Deadliest Vaccine in History Targeted the Most Vulnerable,” told The Defender he saw every single one of the signals among women in his practice.

The researchers concluded that an “immediate global moratorium on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy is warranted.” The article is Part 1 of a three-part series…