COVID-19 Vaccines Don't Impact Fertility, But The Virus Does, Doctors Say

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

September 17, 2021

Already pushed to the breaking point battling the latest Covid-19 surge, doctors are also busy fighting bad information about the vaccines, especially as it relates to impact on fertility.

“It goes like wildfire, on social media,” says Dr. Jay Herd, Chief Medical Officer, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth. “People use it as an excuse but there’s no data to back it up.”

“And so, the risk is certainly there,” warns Dr. Emily Adhikari, a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, “that if you get too sick from Covid, you may not recover, and your body may not be well enough to be ready to carry a pregnancy optimally.”

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