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What Did Fauci Know? Newly Revealed Texts Show a Chilling Concern About Vaccine Miscarriage Risks.

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According to newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic, the doctor privately worried that the second dose of the COVID vaccine carried an increased risk of miscarriage for pregnant women during their first trimester. In January of 2021, Fauci wrote in a text message: 'I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.'

[Desk note: the article's lead is verbatim above. The remainder of the article contrasts the texts with the CDC's August 2021 v-safe finding that mRNA vaccination in early pregnancy did not increase miscarriage risk; it acknowledges the available evidence does not indicate an uptick in miscarriages and cites peer-reviewed U.S. studies finding no evidence vaccination directly increased miscarriage risk; it notes the claimed 82 percent miscarriage figure has not been independently confirmed. Those sentences were retrieved only as paraphrase and are NOT verbatim — do not quote them inside quotation marks.]