Washington, United States — False claims that COVID-19 vaccines can cause infertility are discouraging Americans from receiving the shots and leaving health professionals to persuade patients that scare stories they have read online are unfounded.
Among the worst examples of such misinformation spread on Facebook are that immunized men can render unvaccinated women sterile through sex, that 97 percent of vaccine recipients will become infertile and that the jabs could be “sterilizing an entire generation.”
With vaccine uptake already slowing, the claims are a threat to the Biden administration’s goal of achieving herd immunity in the United States.
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