COVID vaccine — the unfounded tale of infertility

Claims like "COVID vaccines make you infertile!" have been swirling around social media for months. At first, it was only women who had to worry about their fertility after a coronavirus vaccine. And the proponents of the claim say they can explain it biologically.

They say that vaccines produce antibodies that not only attack SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but also a protein that's needed for a placenta to grow in the womb.

But scientists say that is a myth.

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