Vaccinations During Pregnancy: Where Are the Safety Studies?
There are reports that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to remove its recommendations for routine COVID-19 vaccinations for children, teenagers and pregnant women.
That is great news.
I have one question: What took so long?
The COVID-19 vaccines should have never been approved for anyone, much less children, teenagers and especially pregnant women. The original Pfizer trial released in December 2020 showed the vaccine had an absolute risk reduction of 0.8%. In other words, during the length of the trial, 99.2% of participants failed to receive a benefit. And, the original trials excluded pregnant women and young children. What about adverse events? The serious adverse events from the vaccines that were hidden when Pfizer—with the FDAs blessing—said they needed 75 years to release the raw data. A court order forced the release of the data which revealed the serious adverse events, including death, outweighed the miniscule benefits.
Let’s continue with a discussion about vaccines recommended during pregnancy. During my training, I took care of pregnant women and delivered many babies. It was drilled into me to avoid giving pregnant women any medications unless they were essential and safe. I was taught to err on the side of caution when prescribing anything during pregnancy. Furthermore, I was educated that pregnant women need to avoid anything that causes inflammation as inflammation can harm the baby.
At present time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend four (FOUR!) vaccines for pregnant women. These vaccines include: COVID-19, influenza, DTaP (for whooping cough), and RSV. For the CDC to recommend pregnancy vaccines, one would think that these vaccines have been properly studied for safety and efficacy in pregnant woman. I have searched for the proper vaccine safety studies in pregnant women and I have been unable to find long-term, randomized, placebo-controlled studies. Unless I missed something, these studies do not exist. (Editor’s note: If such studies exist, please inform me and I will update this article.)
Each of these vaccines promote inflammation in the body. That is what vaccinations are designed to do. Vaccines do not work unless there is an inflammatory response post vaccination. The inflammatory response is generated by additives such as mercury (flu), aluminum (TDaP), and polysorbate 80 (RSV). The COVID vaccines[i] are known to produce a host of inflammatory problems including myocarditis, pericarditis, arthritis, tendonitis, and bursitis. Polysorbate 80 has been implicated in a number of adverse reactions such as anaphylaxis, blood clots as well as renal and liver toxicity.[ii]
The idea that it is safe to inject known neurotoxins and possible carcinogens—aluminum and mercury— into any living being, much less a pregnant woman, is beyond absurd. Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to mankind. Physicians advise pregnant women to avoid fish contaminated with mercury yet the CDC still recommends flu vaccines preserved with ONE OF THE MOST TOXIC SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO MANKIND! Mercury poisons hundreds of enzymes and is a neurotoxin. Injectable aluminum has never been shown to be safe and not only may have carcinogenic properties it is known neurotoxin which can potentiate oxidative stress and precipitate inflammatory events leading to cell death.[iii]
The flu vaccine does not work—and has never worked—for the vast majority who receive it. It is a perfect example of an ineffective vaccine. A 2025 Cleveland Clinic study found that, compared to those not vaccinated, the 2024-2025 influenza vaccine resulted in a 27% increase risk of becoming ill with the flu.[iv] Maternal RSV vaccine has not shown the benefits outweigh the risks. Vinay Prasad, the director of the FDAs Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research states that RSV vaccination does not lower the risk for a baby to be hospitalized for all lower respiratory tract infections. Furthermore, RSV vaccination can cause low birth weight. Dr. Prasad states, “I have no confidence this vaccine is a net positive.”[v] I have confidence Dr. Prasad will provide much better guidance than his predecessor.
It is beyond time to change the CDCs recommendation for maternal vaccination. The CDC should work for us to ensure that vaccines given to pregnant women are, most importantly, safe and effective. Until the appropriate studies are done which show the benefits far outweigh the risks I do not understand how the CDC can recommend these vaccines to pregnant women. A pregnant woman is a special patient and should be treated as such. At present time, there is not a single long-term, placebo-controlled randomized study that has shown it is safe and effective to inject any vaccine into a pregnant woman.
We are suffering from an epidemic of neurodegenerative disorders and other chronic illnesses in our children. A CDC report stated that one in ten infants (9.8%) were admitted to a neonatal ICU in 2023—an increase of 13% from 2016.[vi] Autism rates are continuing to skyrocket. Our kids are sicker than ever. The new MAHA report details how sick our kids are.[vii] We have a bloated childhood vaccine schedule and now we have an expanded pregnancy vaccine schedule. Show me where our kids are healthier from this massively increased vaccine schedule that now begins in-utero.
Insanity can be defined as doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result. It is insane to inject pregnant women with inflammatory-provoking, neurotoxic, potentially carcinogenic substances and expect our children to be healthier. It is insane for the CDC to recommend vaccines for pregnant women that have not been proven safe and effective. It is time for the insanity to stop.
We can do better.
Times are changing. Yesterday, I attended the White House for the release of the new MAHA Report on children's health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of HHS, has identified key issues and has a plan to Make America Healthy Again. It is a project we should all support, and I am ready to do my part.
To All Our Health,
~DrB
[i] medRXiv preprint. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.1
[ii] Adv Ther
. 2018 May 23;35(6):754–767. doi: 10.1007/s12325-018-0707-z
[iii] Biomed. And Pharmacotherapy. Vol. 83.Oct. 2016.746-754
[iv] Nabin K. Shrestha, Patrick C. Burke, Amy S. Nowacki, Steven M. Gordon
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.30.25321421
[v] (100) Open concerns with recent RCTs for Maternal RSV vaccination
