A study on COVID-19 vaccination during the first trimester of pregnancy revealed an 82% miscarriage rate.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
The claim that a study revealed an 82% miscarriage rate for COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester is contradicted by multiple fact-checkers. The 2021 NEJM v-safe study reported about 12.6% (104 of 827 completed pregnancies), and the 82% figure came from an incorrect calculation that excluded most participants. The claim faithfully reflects the post, so no extraction departure applies.
What was said
… They told them they had to get it to keep working, to, you know, go to school, to be able to go out in in public. You gotta take it. It's your duty. We're all in this together. Don't you care about public health? Don't you care about grandma? And they knew it had an 82% miscarriage rate. They knew it was harmful. They might not have, at that point where they issued that guidance, knew known that the rate was 82%, right, because they were just starting to roll it out. They knew it was dangerous. They knew they believed, uh, the reported rate was let me pull this back up the reported rate was 12.6 author. The authors claimed a 12.6% so that's gaming the study to begin with but then the data revealed that miscarriages were 82%. This is genocide, and where are all of the, um, cries for the unborn? Why? Why is how can a study be manipulated like this, used to provide health information to the public, proven to be orders of magnitude more harmful than what they told the public before …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. FactCheck.org states the 82% miscarriage claim is a falsehood based on an incorrect calculation, and that current data show no increased miscarriage risk from COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy.[1]
Contradicts. Snopes reports the 82% figure is a gross misrepresentation of the April 2021 study, and that the rate of miscarriage among vaccinated women is in line with the general population.[2]
Contradicts. PolitiFact finds the 2021 NEJM study did not show an 82% miscarriage rate; the figure came from misreading a small subgroup, and the study's preliminary data do not support it.[3]
Contradicts. Lead Stories explains the 82% figure came from dividing 104 miscarriages by only 127 completed pregnancies after discarding 700 third-trimester participants; the study's own table gives 12.6%.[4]
Contradicts. Full Fact (2021) found the 82% figure was based on an incorrect calculation: 104 miscarriages out of 827 completed pregnancies is about 12.6%, similar to the expected baseline.[5]
Supports. The study itself (NEJM, April 2021, CDC v-safe registry) examined about 3,958 women, of whom 827 had completed pregnancies, and the reported miscarriage proportion was roughly 12.6%.[3][4][5][6]
Context. The 82% figure is described as a long-running misrepresentation that circulated after the Fauci texts, and the speaker's own passage states the study reported 12.6% before asserting 82%.[1][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 5 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Republicans Revive False Miscarriage Statistic, Twist Fauci's Texts About COVID-19 Shots - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, context
- 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, supports
- 4Fact Check: Studies Do NOT Show an 81% or 82% Miscarriage ...leadstories.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 5What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages - Full Factfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 6Ted Cruz Just Made A Totally Inaccurate Claim About The ...huffpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 7Fact-check: Are COVID vaccines linked to higher miscarriage rates?wral.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy: What we know nowwashingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: context
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