The Claim:
A widely circulating chart claims that children born to mothers vaccinated against COVID are dying 77% more often than expected.
The Facts:
The graph claims that there’s a 90%+ chance the babies never had COVID and that the mothers were vaccinated. But there’s no proof for either claim. In reality, less than 71% of women of childbearing age have had at least one COVID shot, and children are just as likely to catch COVID as adults.
Studies have shown that vaccine ingredients do not cross the placenta; only the antibodies the mother develops during gestation do – and those antibodies are the same as those they would develop for COVID itself.
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