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Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk

Senators release messages from 2021 where Fauci discussed theoretical link to first-trimester miscarriage

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Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk

What this story says

  • Anthony Fauci sent a text on 25 January 2021 expressing concern that cytokine storm and fever after the second COVID-19 vaccine dose could theoretically be linked to first-trimester miscarriage.
  • The texts were released by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson from over 34,000 messages obtained by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
  • Fauci publicly stated on 3 February 2021 that the FDA had found no red flags for pregnant women receiving the vaccine.
  • The Senate committee noted only three contacts are listed on Fauci’s phone, and it is unclear whether any data has been deleted.

Who covered it

Left 5%(10)Centre 42%(83)Right 53%(104)

Percentages are shares of the 197 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 25 of the 222 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

76/100

Craft

75/100

Hype

30/100

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Missing from the left

Only 10 of the 197 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

On 25 January 2021, Anthony Fauci sent a text message to then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. In it, he wrote that fever and cytokine storm after the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine could theoretically be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. The message was part of a batch of over 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails obtained from Fauci’s government-issued phone by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

The texts were released by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson. The committee’s statement noted that only three contacts are listed on Fauci’s phone, and it is too early to determine whether any data has been deleted. On 3 February 2021, Fauci publicly stated that the FDA had found no red flags regarding the vaccine’s safety for pregnant women.

What the coverage left out

No left- or centre-rated outlet ran this story. None of the right-rated digests mentioned the Senate committee’s statement that only three contacts are listed on Fauci’s phone, or the uncertainty over whether data has been deleted.

Tags:#COVID19Vaccine#AnthonyFauci#SenateInvestigation#PublicHealth#MiscarriageRisk

Coverage settled. We checked this 84 times and stopped on 15 Aug 2026, 21:01. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

10 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Centre

83 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

104 rated outlets

  • The New York Post led with Fauci’s private concern about a theoretical link between the vaccine and miscarriage, contrasting it with his public statements that there were no red flags for pregnant women. The report quoted the text directly: “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
  • The digests from The Gateway Pundit, Just the News, and The Daily Sceptic all carried the release of the texts by Senators Paul and Johnson. The Gateway Pundit and Just the News mentioned the discussion between Fauci, Walensky, and Murthy. The Daily Sceptic did not reference the miscarriage concern in its digest, focusing instead on Fauci’s public statements about COVID-19’s fatality rate.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk?
Of the 197 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 5% are rated left, 42% are rated centre, 53% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 222. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 197 rated outlets on this story, 5% are rated left, 42% are rated centre, 53% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk biased?
Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk is one event reported by 222 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Fauci texts show private concern over COVID vaccine and miscarriage risk?
222 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Fauci say in the text about the COVID vaccine and miscarriage?
On 25 January 2021, Anthony Fauci texted that fever and cytokine storm after the second COVID-19 vaccine dose could theoretically be linked to first-trimester miscarriage. He sent the message to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. The texts were released by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson.
Did Fauci publicly address concerns about the vaccine and pregnant women?
Yes. On 3 February 2021, Fauci publicly stated that the FDA had found no red flags regarding the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety for pregnant women. This was nine days after he privately raised theoretical concerns about miscarriage risk in a text message.
How many texts were obtained from Fauci’s phone?
The Senate Homeland Security Committee obtained over 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails from Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone. The first batch of these messages was released by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson in August 2026.

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