Danielsjackson114 said:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fauci-texts-covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-gop-rand-paul-ron-johnson/
Domestic terrorist, Fauxi, knew the vaccine and boosters could be detrimental to pregnant women while publicly saying otherwise
Yawn
I have come to the conclusion you were just born stupid.
Short answer: he didn't lie, but the criticism isn't invented out of nothing either. Here's what actually happened.
The texts. In a January 2021 exchange released this week by Sens. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, Fauci said there was "no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred," then followed up noting that fever and cytokine response after the second dose "theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester." A day later he wrote that when data are lacking in pregnant women "one must weigh the potential risks against the benefits," noting COVID itself can be serious in pregnancy, and that more than 10,000 pregnant women had been vaccinated with no issues arising.
CBS News
Why that isn't a lie. The mechanism he raised is generic high fever in the first trimester is a known risk factor regardless of cause, and that's why the concern was "theoretical." He wasn't sitting on safety data showing harm; he explicitly said the opposite in the same exchange. And the CDC didn't recommend vaccination in pregnancy until August 2021, seven months later, citing accumulated data showing no increased miscarriage risk. Raising a hypothesis privately in January and stating publicly in August that the data came back clean is how the process is supposed to work.
Forbes
The fair version of the criticism. Whether officials communicated that uncertainty adequately at the time is a legitimate argument. By mid-2021 Fauci's public messaging was flatly reassuring, and people making mandate-affected decisions could reasonably feel the "we don't have much data yet" caveat got compressed out. That's a real communications critique it's just a different thing from lying about known harm.
The 82% number is wrong. This is the claim doing most of the work online, and it's a math error. The Shimabukuro NEJM study reported 104 spontaneous abortions among 827 completed pregnancies (12.6%), and critics noted that 700 of those 827 got their first dose in the third trimester so they divided 104 by the remaining 127 and got 82%. The problem: at the data cutoff, most women vaccinated in the first or second trimester were
still pregnant. Their outcomes hadn't happened yet, so they weren't in the denominator. The incomplete follow-up meant pregnancies ending early were disproportionately represented among known outcomes, while many that would end in live births hadn't reached an outcome yet. You'd get a similarly alarming number doing this to any pregnancy cohort mid-study. A 2023 pooled analysis of 21 studies covering roughly 150,000 pregnant women looked directly at miscarriage risk after COVID vaccination and multiple studies since have found no increased risk of miscarriage or other pregnancy complications.
New England Journal of Medicine + 3
One clarification on your wording:
COVID infection during pregnancy does carry elevated risk stillbirth, preterm birth, ICU admission. That part was never disputed. The fight is entirely about the vaccine.