Marjorie Taylor Greene Tries, Fails to Show the Covid Vaccine Causes Miscarriages
The Georgia Republican's chart is missing one crucial variable.
Politics

In a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, anti-vaccine hobgoblin Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) falsely claimed that covid vaccines caused an increase in miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant people (and was, tangentially, very upset at the use of that inclusive term over the word “women”).
Greene held up a bar chart purporting to show miscarriages and stillbirths increasing after the FDA approved covid vaccines, but there is no evidence to suggest a link between covid vaccination and miscarriage. This chart is missing an important variable: covid infections. Do do you know what is associated with a higher risk of miscarriage and stillbirth? Getting covid during your pregnancy. In general, it’s riskier for pregnant women to get covid than non-pregnant people—they may need to be admitted to the ICU, could require being put on a ventilator, and they’re more likely to die. (Experts believe much of the increase in maternal deaths from 2020 to 2021 came from deaths linked to covid infection.)