Studies on how COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility are “in the works,” but some are still in the planning stages, the Centers for Disease Control …
Studies on how COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility are “in the works,” but some are still in the planning stages, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Anxieties over whether the COVID-19 vaccines impact fertility have discouraged some U.S. women from obtaining the vaccines, though the CDC has not found evidence that coronavirus vaccines “cause female or male fertility problems.” After the Food and Drug Administration issued the first Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, researchers found that the five “most queried terms” on Google were “COVID Vaccine Fertility,” ” COVID Vaccine and Infertility,” “COVID Vaccine Infertility,” “COVID Vaccine Fertility CDC,” and “COVID 19 Vaccine Infertility,” according to a June 2021 study. CDC spokeswoman Martha Sharan told the DCNF in mid-July that “several studies are in the works” but hedged that “some are still in the planning stages.” “At this time, CDC and other researchers are looking at available data to investigate these topics,” CDC public affairs specialist Curtis H. Gill told the DCNF Tuesday. “In general, studying impacts on fertility inherently takes time. A person needs to be unable to get pregnant for at least 6 months or a year depending on age to meet the definition of infertility.” Gill emphasized that there is no evidence that any of the coronavirus vaccines affect future fertility, noting that “based on how these vaccines work in the body, there is not a plausible mechanism to suggest they would have any impact on fertility.” “Anecdotally, so far, we have not heard any reports related to difficulty with conceiving after the trials,” he said.
