Media Cover For Fauci’s Comments About Vaccine Pregnancy Risk
Recent private texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal he expressed concerns in early 2021 that COVID-19 vaccines could cause miscarriages, despite publicly assuring that the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. These private messages, released by Republican senators, show Fauci discussing potential risks such as cytokine storms and early pregnancy issues, which he did not disclose publicly at the time. instead, Fauci publicly claimed there were no red flags regarding vaccination safety for pregnant women, a contradiction that is criticized as potentially harmful. Mainstream outlets like CNN and The Washington Post have framed these releases as part of political efforts, downplaying the seriousness of Fauci’s private concerns. Although later studies suggested the vaccines are safe during pregnancy, the private concerns raised at the time suggest Fauci may have misrepresented the risks publicly, a discrepancy that critics argue could have led to tragic outcomes.
Newly released texts show Dr. Anthony Fauci privately raised concerns that the Covid-19 vaccine could cause miscarriages despite publicly assuring expecting mothers that the vaccine was safe. It’s a lie that resulted in women losing their children. But rather than scrutinize Fauci’s conflicting statements, CNN and The Washington Post tried to cover up for Fauci as part of their coverage.
CNN’s Jessie Yeung wrote “Republican senators released Fauci’s old texts about Covid vaccines and pregnancy. Years of evidence show they’re safe.”
“Two Republican senators have released the first batch of text messages retrieved from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former government phone as part of an investigation into his leadership and actions during the Covid-19 pandemic — including messages in which he discusses the possible risks and safety of the vaccine during pregnancy,” she continued.
Text messages from Fauci include a January 2021 message in which Fauci wrote: “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 [of the vaccine], this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
“Definitely a good point, esp after dose two,” then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky responded.
Vivek Murthy, then-U.S. surgeon general under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, said he had “been hearing the concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well. That’s a really good point re the cytokine storm post second dose.”
Fauci also disclosed concerns he heard from “female health care professionals” that “injecting a ‘genetic’ vaccine very early in pregnancy” could cause issues. Despite the concerns he heard, he publicly insisted a few days later that he had found “no red flags about that, about pregnant women.” (The CDC would later double down on its vaccine recommendation despite private concerns amongst Fauci and others.)
Despite the private concerns that highlighted Fauci’s contradiction, Yeung quickly reported on Fauci’s texts before trying to couch their significance with evidence gathered after he made his public assurances.
“Studies have since shown that the vaccines were safe during pregnancy, and that serious adverse reactions are rare,” Yeung nonetheless writes.
But studies conducted after these private concerns were raised do not mean that Fauci knew these studies in early 2021 when he was privately raising concerns. Nor do they answer why Fauci publicly said the vaccines were safe when privately discussing the possible connection to miscarriages.
The Washington Post’s Anna Liss-Roy and Rachel Roubein similarly angled their piece: “GOP lawmakers release Fauci texts discussing covid vaccine and pregnancy,” with a subhead emphasizing that there are “more than 34,000” texts recovered (as if that’s the biggest takeaway).
“Two Republican senators on Monday released the first in a trove of text messages from Anthony S. Fauci’s former government cellphone, including a discussion with health officials about whether the covid vaccine posed a risk for pregnant women,” the lede reads.
“In a news release, the senators pointed to several subsequent public statements from Fauci and other administration officials in which they said the benefits of pregnant women getting vaccinated appeared to outweigh the risks,” The Post reported. “In February 2021, for instance, Fauci said the Food and Drug Administration has ‘found, thus far — and we’ve got to be careful — but thus far, no red flags about that, about pregnant women.’”
But framing this as though “Fauci and other administration officials” were weighing whether “the benefits of pregnant women getting vaccinated appeared to outweigh the risks” is not the point nor accurate. Fauci unequivocally said in February of 2021 that the FDA had “found, thus far…no red flags…about pregnant women.”
Yet privately Fauci had acknowledged red flags and miscarriage potential. Rather than acknowledge the public versus private contradiction in Fauci’s statements, they just treat these messages as part of Republicans’ larger efforts to release texts from Fauci.
Even if all data ultimately pointed to the vaccine being safe for pregnant women, Fauci never accurately and honestly communicated that at the time of his public statements on the vaccines’ safety there were not studies to support his public declarations about safety. In fact, he privately had concerns about their safety. But he never voiced those. That contradiction could have cost a mother her child — but that matters naught to the propaganda press.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
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