A shot given to pregnant women had an 82% miscarriage rate.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
The 82% miscarriage rate claim is false: multiple fact-checkers (FactCheck.org, Snopes, PolitiFact, Full Fact) state the 82% figure resulted from a miscalculation of a 2021 CDC v-safe study, which found roughly 12.6% of completed pregnancies ended in miscarriage, and that COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy is not associated with increased miscarriage risk.
What was said
… Listen to the victims' stories. Do your own research and share your findings. We're allowed to do our own research. Again, remember when the same persuasion of people told us that doing your own research was dangerous? Oh, that was just trying when they were trying to convince pregnant women to take a shot that had an 82% miscarriage rate. That was when doing your own research was dangerous. Confront leaders. Should not be should not punish people for speaking out. Agree. Retaliation against critics breaks the rules of democracy. Agree. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. FactCheck.org rates the claim of an 82% miscarriage rate after COVID-19 vaccination as a falsehood based on an incorrect calculation from vaccine safety monitoring data, and states the claims are unsupported.[1]
Contradicts. Snopes states the rate of miscarriage among vaccinated pregnant women is not 82%, that the figure comes from a misinterpretation of a 2021 study, and that multiple studies show no increased risk.[2]
Contradicts. PolitiFact reports the 2021 study did not find an 82% increase in miscarriages; the figure came from dividing by a flawed denominator after most participants were in their third trimester, with the correct figure around 12.6%.[3]
Contradicts. Full Fact (2021) explicitly states the 82% figure is wrong and based on an incorrect calculation, with the observed 12.6% of completed pregnancies similar to expected baseline miscarriage rates.[4]
Contradicts. Multiple studies and medical bodies (Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, September 2025 statement) report no increased risk of miscarriage from COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy.[1][5]
Sources
5 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2
- 1Republicans Revive False Miscarriage Statistic, Twist Fauci's Texts About COVID-19 Shotsfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Fauci didn't cover up data supposedly showing COVID-19 vaccine had 82% miscarriage ratesnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 3No, COVID-19 vaccines don't increase miscarriage ratespolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 4What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages - Full Factfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 5Ted Cruz Just Made A Totally Inaccurate Claim About The ...huffpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
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