A survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 66% of parents of 5- to 11-year-olds worried that vaccines might negatively impact children's fertility later on.
It's among parents' top worries around kids getting vaccinated against Covid-19: Could the vaccine somehow impair their child's future fertility?
FDA's vaccine advisers are notoriously independent, and are unafraid to state unpopular opinions at their meetings. Last week, several members of FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voiced concerns about whether it was worthwhile to vaccinate this entire age group at this time.
"This false notion was born of this letter that was actually written to the European Medicines Agency, which is like the European equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, claiming that there was similarity between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is what you're making an antibody response to when you get these vaccines, and a protein that sits on the surface of placental cells called syncytin-1," he says.
"If it was affecting fertility, if natural infection was affecting fertility, then birth rates should have gone down, but that's not what happened. Birth rates have actually gone up slightly. So, those are two pieces of evidence that argue against this vaccine or natural infection in any sense affecting fertility."
Both Pfizer's vaccine and Moderna's vaccine are called mRNA vaccines. They use genetic material called messenger RNA or mRNA to instruct the body's own cells to make a little piece of the coronavirus spike protein, which in turn trains the body to recognize it and attack it. Some scientists have described mRNA as being like a Snapchat message -- it delivers instructions to cells and then disappears.
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