evidence: Last December, a German epidemiologist said the COVID-19 vaccines might make women’s bodies reject a protein that’s connected to placenta, therefore making women infertile. He thought this because the genetic code of the placenta protein, called syncytin-1, shares a hint of similarity with the genetic code of the spike protein in COVID-19. If the vaccines caused our bodies to make antibodies to protect us from COVID-19, he thought, they could also make antibodies to reject the placenta. [...] Evidence Firmly Shows The COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Cause Infertility "Women who participated in the COVID-19 clinical trials were able to conceive after vaccination," says Dr. Pitts. "We also have many patients here at Henry Ford who got vaccinated and then became pregnant afterwards. Some are in their first trimester, some are now in their second trimester. There’s no evidence to show that the COVID-19 vaccines lead to reduced fertility." [...] "There is no evidence that shows getting one of the COVID-19 vaccines will cause infertility or even cause complications that would require fertility workup," says Dr. Pitts. "I recommend that young women, millennials and Gen Z’ers, get the vaccine. I’ve seen evidence of younger and older women getting the vaccine and having no problems conceiving. I myself am a millennial woman who wants children in the future, and I did not hesitate to get vaccinated—I was very excited to get it."