evidence: Worries that the Covid-19 vaccine could cause infertility are among the reasons people give for avoiding vaccination. While there’s no evidence any of the Covid vaccines cause problems with fertility, becoming severely ill from the disease has the potential to do so, reproduction experts say, making vaccination all the more important. Full coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic "There is evidence to suggest that infection with SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to impact both male fertility, female fertility, and certainly the health of a pregnancy of someone infected," said Dr. Jennifer Kawwass, a reproductive endocrinologist and associate professor at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. "And there is simultaneously no evidence that the vaccine has any negative impact on male or female fertility." [...] The vaccine does not decrease fertility, nor does it negatively affect reproduction, but there is very clear evidence that getting Covid while pregnant is incredibly dangerous, Kawwass said. "Pregnant women with symptomatic Covid-19 have a 70 percent increased risk of death compared to nonpregnant women with Covid," she said.