A website founded by an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist claims that the FDA and Pfizer covered up data showing that the COVID-19 vaccine causes birth defects and other risks during pregnancy.
The persistence of the false claim increases its risk. The site making the claim has repeatedly misrepresented and misinterpreted clinical data to promote misinformation about the safety of the vaccine. Debunking messaging may explain that the claim is based on adverse event reports that have been used repeatedly by vaccine skeptics to inflate safety concerns related to COVID-19 vaccines. Continuing to emphasize that multiple large-scale studies show that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy does not increase the risk of pregnancy complications is recommended.
USA Today, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, CIDRAP
