If you are a man who has hesitated to get the Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns spread on social media that the vaccine may harm fertility, take heart.
A woman's reproductive tract can weed out unwanted sperm after sex, studies findSperm count and quality did not drop in healthy young men after receiving a first or second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, according to a new study published Thursday in JAMA."We now have evidence that should reassure you that the risk of immunization compromising your sperm count is extremely low," said Dr.
The study did not test the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca vaccines, which are not based on mRNA platforms."However, we think the mechanism of how these vaccines work is all fairly similar despite different genetic material, so based on biology, we don't think there should be anything different with the other two vaccines," Ramasamy said.Additional larger studies with men of different ages are needed to affirm the study's results, Pacey said.
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