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New Evidence Emerges Regarding Vaccine Link to Miscarriage
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New Evidence Emerges Regarding Vaccine Link to Miscarriage

Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone are providing a look at what he was discussing privately during the early months of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout — including a theoretical concern about miscarriage that Republican senators say contrasts sharply with his subsequent public assurances about vaccination during pregnancy.

Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released an initial batch of Fauci’s messages Monday. According to the senators, the phone contains more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails, meaning the material released so far represents only part of what they are examining.

One exchange is already receiving considerable attention.

On Jan. 25, 2021, Fauci sent a message to then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy concerning vaccination and pregnancy.

“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of,” Fauci wrote.

“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

The word “theoretically” is important. The message does not establish that COVID vaccines were causing miscarriages. It does, however, show that Fauci was privately raising the possibility as something federal health officials needed to consider.


Walensky apparently thought the issue warranted attention as well, responding that it was “definitely a good point, [especially] after dose two,” according to the senators’ release.

Paul seized on the exchange.

“Once again, Anthony Fauci was saying one thing in public and something completely different in private,” Paul wrote on X.

“He was willing to put women and their unborn children at risk instead of admitting that he was wrong about the vaccines that he tried guilting Americans into taking. Absolutely reprehensible.”

The timeline, however, matters when evaluating that accusation.

Fauci’s private message was sent Jan. 25. On Feb. 3, during an appearance with the Journal of the American Medical Association, Fauci discussed what regulators knew at that point about pregnant women and the vaccines.

The Food and Drug Administration had “found thus far, and we have to be careful, but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women,” Fauci said.

That statement did include qualifications — “thus far” and “we have to be careful” — and came more than a week after his private message raising the theoretical miscarriage concern.

As more data accumulated, Fauci’s public language became much stronger.


He later said that “10s and 10s and 10s of thousands of women” vaccinated during pregnancy had been followed by the CDC and that there was “no indication whatsoever” of an increase in adverse outcomes compared with unvaccinated pregnant women.

“It’s pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated,” Fauci said.

Another newly released message shows that pregnancy recommendations were a sensitive subject inside the administration at the time.

On Jan. 26, 2021, Murthy reportedly expressed surprise over the World Health Organization’s position on Moderna’s vaccine.

Murthy said he was “surprised to see WHO put out a strong [statement] saying they do not recommend [Moderna] in pregnant women,” according to the New York Post.

“That’s a strong statement to make and potentially quite damaging to public confidence among pregnant women,” he wrote.

That message raises a separate issue from whether vaccines actually increased miscarriage risk. It shows senior health officials were considering not only the underlying medical questions but also how recommendations from public-health organizations could affect confidence in vaccination.

The newly released material does not, by itself, demonstrate that Fauci possessed evidence showing COVID vaccination caused miscarriages and concealed it. His Jan. 25 message explicitly described the possibility as theoretical.


But it does provide a more detailed picture of the uncertainty being discussed privately while federal officials were simultaneously communicating with a public desperate for definitive answers.

And that distinction is likely to become central to Johnson and Paul’s investigation: Were officials appropriately updating their public recommendations as evidence accumulated, or were internal uncertainties and concerns being presented much differently behind closed doors?

Johnson made clear that Monday’s release is only the beginning.

“While I’ve been conducting oversight for years, now that we have the documents and Fauci’s government-issued phone, my investigation has only just begun,” he wrote.

Written by Arthur Higgens - August 11, 2026