It is safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women to get vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, according to the CDC, vaccination during pregnancy benefits the baby, and “reports have shown that breastfeeding people who have received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have antibodies in their breastmilk, which could help protect their babies.”
The CDC wasn’t alone. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology repeatedly urged pregnant and breastfeeding women to get vaccinated.
There was no reason to worry, experts said, because injected mRNA stays in the arm and does not travel around the body. “It is unlikely that the vaccine lipid would enter the bloodstream and reach breast tissue,” the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine assured mothers in a statement on December 14, 2020. “If it does, it is even less likely that either the intact nanoparticle or mRNA transfer into milk.”
But now a pivotal new study, published yesterday, reveals that this was always a lie.
