Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or considering pregnancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The updated recommendations were based on a new analysis, the agency said, which had followed thousands of vaccinated participants through pregnancy.

Pregnant people are especially vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, and the ongoing and ferocious spread of the highly contagious delta variant has highlighted just how crucial it is to get immunized. Through the early months of the vaccine’s rollout in the United States, though, some unvaccinated people have remained uncertain over concerns that the shots could lead to infertility.

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