Anthony Fauci knew that pregnant women had a higher rate of miscarriage from taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Health Ranger ReportAug 14, 2026
Fact-checkers including Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and Lead Stories rate the claim false. Fauci's January 2021 texts raised only a theoretical possibility of first-trimester miscarriage, with no data showing a higher rate, and the 82% figure the claim rests on is a miscalculation.
What was said
… Those were the bad actors. And I think one of the misnomers here is, as long as government's doing it, they're gonna look out for us. COVID proved that's not true. We talked in the last hour about the fact that they knew, Anthony Fauci knew, that women who were pregnant had a higher rate of miscarriage from taking the shot, and told them over and over and over again, go ahead and take the shot. Drawing a lot of parallels here to COVID, like you said. And so, in that instance, right, the, uh, I want to say, the allegation or the, you know, uh, maybe unconfirmed truth is that it was made in a lab in Wuhan, right? …
The Health Ranger Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Snopes rates the claim false, stating the 82% figure is a misinterpretation of a 2021 study and that Fauci's text, if legitimate, cited no miscarriage data at all.[1]
Contradicts. PolitiFact and Lead Stories find no study showed an 82% miscarriage rate; the figure came from miscalculating early, incomplete data, and several studies have found no increased miscarriage risk from vaccination during pregnancy.[2][3]
Contradicts. FactCheck.org says the senators paired a single Fauci text about a theoretical concern, which was not borne out by data, with unrelated comments, and that the claim of increased risk is unsupported by current data.[4]
Contradicts. Fauci's texts also said there was 'no data or theoretical reason' to prefer early vaccination and that over 10,000 vaccinated pregnant people had 'no issues,' so the record does not show he knew of a higher miscarriage rate or told women to take the shot despite one.[5][6][7]
Supports. Released texts show Fauci wrote that some reported vaccine effects 'theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,' so he raised a speculative concern.[2][5][8]
Sources
8 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Fauci didn't cover up data supposedly showing COVID-19 vaccine had 82% miscarriage ratesnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase miscarriage ratespolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3Health | Lead Storiesleadstories.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 4Republicans Revive False Miscarriage Statistic, Twist Fauci's Texts About COVID-19 Shots - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 5Fauci discussed potential risks, benefits of COVID vaccine for pregnant women in 2021 texts released by GOP senatorscbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 6Fauci texts release revives false claims linking Covid-19 ...factcheck.afp.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7GOP Rep Falsely Claims 82% of Women Vaccinated in First Two Trimesters Miscarriedmediaite.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 8No, COVID-19 vaccines don't increase miscarriage rates19thnews.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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- Senator Ron Johnson stated that Dr. Fauci was concerned in January 2021 that the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester.True
- Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that COVID-19 vaccines could theoretically be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester due to cytokine storms and fever after the second dose.True
- A study on COVID-19 vaccination during the first trimester of pregnancy revealed an 82% miscarriage rate.False
- Raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester.False
- Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released documents claiming a 12.6% miscarriage rate for pregnant women who received the COVID-19 vaccine.Can’t tell