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vaccinesinpregnancy.orgVaccines in Pregnancy, UK | Learn More About Vaccination TodayComprehensive guide to vaccines during pregnancy in the UK, including timing and locations for vaccination. Essential information for expectant parents and healthcare providers.

Vaccination against whooping cough, RSV and flu during pregnancy saves babies lives, but expectant parents are sometimes unsure. How do I know it's safe? Will it protect my baby? To answer these questions, we've created www.vaccinesinpregnancy.org #ObGynSky #MedSky #ImmunoSky 1/

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FactCheck.org

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14 Aug

Republicans Revive False Miscarriage Statistic, Twist Fauci’s Texts About COVID-19 Shots www.factcheck.org/2026/08/repu...

factcheck.orgRepublicans Revive False Miscarriage Statistic, Twist Fauci's Texts About COVID-19 Shots - FactCheck.orgStudies have shown no connection between COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and increased risk of miscarriage. Despite this, Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson resurrected a long-debunked c...

Further to comments from Senators Paul and Johnson on the safety of #CovidVaccines in #pregnancy, people are asking if I still update my table of studies. I've just done so! 1/3 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The main update since February (when I last did this) is that the final analyses of the complete V-safe pregnancy registry dataset has been published following peer review. It continues to show no increased risk of any pregnancy problems associated with COVID vaccination. 3/3

PS. I spoke to @kateyandell.bsky.social from @factcheck.org about the resurfacing claims. You can read more here... www.factcheck.org/2026/08/repu...

factcheck.orgCDC Data Thus Far Show COVID-19 Vaccination Safe During Pregnancy - FactCheck.orgFederal vaccine monitoring systems have identified no safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant people. Preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that miscarriage ...

Senators Paul and Johnson are repeating a claim from 2021, made based on a misinterpretation of the first data from the V-safe pregnancy registry, and commented on by me and others at the time... 2/ www.factcheck.org/2021/07/cdc-...

10 Aug

Student researchers: the Robin Weiss Prize for Science Writing is now open! It's a great opportunity to share your ideas, develop your science-writing skills, and gain recognition for your work. Learn more and apply: oxford.ly/robin-weiss-...

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ACOG

@acog.org

17 Feb

Vaccines are critical to protecting pregnant women and their infants. ACOG’s newly updated guidance urges ob-gyns to review patients’ immunization status, recommend needed vaccines, and address barriers such as misinformation. Read the full press release for more: https://bit.ly/4ro56GZ

science.orgRare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

13 Feb

"Although [adenovirus-based] COVID-19 vaccines are out of the picture... an adenovirus-based Ebola shot is on the market, and similar vaccines against other diseases are in development. The new data suggest they, too, could cause VITT, but they might be made safer by tinkering with the adenovirus."

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Borne Charity

@bornecharity.bsky.social

11 Feb

Women’s health research needs women in science. On International Women & Girls in Science Day, we’re proud to support outstanding researchers working to understand and prevent premature birth. @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social #WomenInScience #WomensHealth #PrematureBirth #IDWGS

cidrap.umn.eduLarge study finds COVID-19 shots don’t affect fertility

6 Feb

Among almost 60,000 women aged 18 - 45 in one Swedish county, #Covid #Vaccination did not affect the chance of getting or staying #pregnant. I know of at least a dozen studies that have shown this, but this is by far the biggest! I spoke to @lizszabo.bsky.social

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Lydia Becker Institute

@lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

28 Jan

Dr. Victoria Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social joins us from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social tomorrow to discuss "The immune and reproductive systems: a fertile conversation." 📆 Thursday 29th Jan 🕛 12:00 PM 📍 Michael Smith Lecture Theatre @britsocimm.bsky.social #ImmunoSky

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Eric Topol

@erictopol.bsky.social

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We've also curated a collection of resources for midwives and other healthcare professionals, to help make conversations about this important topic easier and more impactful. Please take a look and share with your patients and colleagues! 2/

Thanks to the IMPRINT network for supporting this project, @ukri.org for funding and colleagues @drbethholder.bsky.social and Sara Barnett. You've all been great to work with!

The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research

9 Jan

@scientisttess.bsky.social Sorry to miss your talk (and indeed the drinks!) My train was cancelled so I had to leave in time to get the one before.

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@loke-ctr.bsky.social

2 Oct 2025

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇 - Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... - Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... - MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

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Adrian Liston

@labliston.bsky.social

6 Oct 2025

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

4 Oct 2025

The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting. She couldn't have been any quicker. A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.

FactCheck.org@factcheck.org

A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee. www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...

pbs.orgResearch doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here are 5 things to knowThere’s no known single cause of autism.

4 Oct 2025

Jessie and I wrote at least a dozen times over the last few weeks, and she probably wrote just as much to @jsm2334.bsky.social, @doritreiss.bsky.social who I see are also quoted - as well as to ACIP members and Pfizer. With thanks to @kevinault.bsky.social, who pinged me to say this was up.

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Deena Mousa

@deenamousa.com

25 Sept 2025

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

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Diane Airbus

@cheatlines.co

21 Dec 2023

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

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ACOG

@acog.org

22 Sept 2025

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Liz Szabo

@lizszabo.bsky.social

22 Sept 2025

From Politifact: Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here are 5 things to know www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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Edward Nirenberg

@enirenberg.bsky.social

Brilliant, baller move by Dr. Bagdasarian.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

nature.comHotly anticipated US vaccine meeting ends with confusion — and a few decisionsVaccine advisers chosen by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr vote to restrict one childhood vaccine, but delay their decision on another.

“Hotly anticipated US vaccine meeting ends with confusion — and a few decisions”

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José Cerca

@naturalselection.bsky.social

19 Sept 2025

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Adrian Liston

@labliston.bsky.social

19 Sept 2025

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting. Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy… 1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants 1/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

The recommendations are… kinda unclear. But there does seem to be a stronger recommendation (if we can call it that) for over 65s. 9/ bsky.app/profile/magg...

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People seems to be cautiously optimistic that, between the way the recommendation is worded, decisions by insurers and state-level legislation, COVID vaccination should still be available for those that want it. And protection of the newborn, I would say, is a good reason to want it. 10/10

gov.ukJCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026

Healthcare economics is not my area at all! But of note, the UK equivalent of ACIP (the JCVI) has done a similar analysis and come to similar conclusions. This js why, in the UK, COVID vaccination is now only free for over 75s and those at high risk (anyone else must pay). 7/

It is frustrating that protection of the newborn was not considered in the ACIP analysis. Though given that the effects seem to be similar between newborns and over 65, we might make an argument that any recommendation applying to >65 should also apply to pregnancy. 8/

Taken together with the fact that babies under 6 months old are as at-risk as adults between 65 and 75, this might make a case for vaccination in pregnancy to protect newborns. These data were presented at the ACIP meeting… 5/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

An economic analysis was presented suggesting that COVID vaccination is cost-effective for high risk adults over 65, but not for low-risk adults in the same age group. 6/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

3. COVID vaccination in pregnancy is about 55% effective at preventing hospitalisation of infants under 2 months and 40% under 5 months. 3/

For context, this is a bit less effective at protecting newborns than whooping cough (66-94%) or RSV (80%) vaccination in pregnancy… …but these are given at a time to maximise newborn protection, whereas COVID vaccination isn’t. 4/

2. COVID vaccination is about 60% effective at protecting against ER and urgent care visits with COVID during pregnancy (though there’s a decently wide confidence interval). 2/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...