(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When Anthony Fauci was leading the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he frequently touted how the vaccines were safe for pregnant women.
But behind closed doors, Fauci apparently had second thoughts behind, according to text messages released from his COVID-era iPhone.
The text messages, which Senate investigators obtained earlier this month, Dr. Vivek Murthy asked Fauci on Jan. 25, 2021, about whether the COVID vaccines are safe for pregnant women, and whether they should get vaccinated earlier or later in the pregnancy.
At first, Fauci responded that “there are no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.” A couple hours later, Fauci warned that there could be risks with women getting vaccinated in their first trimester.
“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,” Fauci texted.
Despite raising that concern privately, Fauci would go on to insist that the COVID vaccines were perfectly safe for pregnant women. About a week later, for instance, he said that there were “no red flags … about pregnant women.”
And in August 2021, Fauci said that “tens and tens and tens of thousands of women who have been followed by the CDC, who have been vaccinated when they were pregnant, there’s no indication whatsoever that there’s any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn’t vaccinated.
Our investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s phone is only just beginning.
We have already recovered 34,000 text messages, 522 voicemails, and 3 contacts — spanning from 2014 to a few days before Fauci left the NIH.
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— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 8, 2026
“It’s pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated.”
Public data suggests that there indeed could be risks involved with pregnant women getting the COVID jab.
For instance, a June 17, 2021, paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that just 700 of the 827 pregnant women—or 12.6%—who were vaccinated in a study had spontaneous abortions. That is in line with the overall spontaneous abortion rate of between 10% and 20%.
However, Dr. James A Thorp, an OB/GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist, noted that 700 of the women in that study were already in their third trimester. Dr. Thorp revealed that, actually, a whopping 104 out of the 127 women in the study had spontaneous abortions, which is a rate of 82%.
After releasing the abovementioned text messages, Sen. Johnson promised that his committee’s investigation into Fauci’s phone is “only just beginning.”
“We have already recovered 34,000 text messages, 522 voicemails, and 3 contacts — spanning from 2014 to a few days before Fauci left the NIH,” he said. “We will continue to scour every piece of evidence to deliver the truth to the American people.”
Johnson and other Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted last week to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he cited the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and declined to speak a week prior at a Senate hearing—despite already having accepted a sweeping pardon from former President Joe Biden. The Senate’s contempt referral has been sent to the Justice Department.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
