https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.13209
I haven't been able to find any early vaccine fertility studies involving male rats, have you? I wonder who thought it was a good idea to skip looking at the longer term fertility impacts on rats of both genders, before greenlighting it for humans.
Public Health Ontario's literature search from a year ago quotes three human semen studies - all shorter durations than this new one - but no male animal trials, while they do mention trials performed with female rats. Did the researchers forget that male rats exist? What was the rationale for leaving them out? https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/vaccines/2021/09/covid-19-vaccines-fertility.pdf?sc_lang=en
There's also no mention in the Cominarty risk management plan at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/rmp-summary/comirnaty-epar-risk-management-plan_en.pdf
Nor is it covered in the Spikevax (Moderna) risk management plan at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/rmp-summary/spikevax-previously-covid-19-vaccine-moderna-epar-risk-management-plan_en.pdf. Under the section on reproductive/development trials, it states: "The risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes after exposure is unknown in humans, but nonclinical findings do not suggest a specific risk. Pregnancy is an exclusion criterion in the ongoing clinical trials."
I haven't been able to find any early vaccine fertility studies involving male rats, have you? I wonder who thought it was a good idea to skip looking at the longer term fertility impacts on rats of both genders, before greenlighting it for humans.
Public Health Ontario's literature search from a year ago quotes three human semen studies - all shorter durations than this new one - but no male animal trials, while they do mention trials performed with female rats. Did the researchers forget that male rats exist? What was the rationale for leaving them out? https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/vaccines/2021/09/covid-19-vaccines-fertility.pdf?sc_lang=en
There's also no mention in the Cominarty risk management plan at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/rmp-summary/comirnaty-epar-risk-management-plan_en.pdf
Nor is it covered in the Spikevax (Moderna) risk management plan at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/rmp-summary/spikevax-previously-covid-19-vaccine-moderna-epar-risk-management-plan_en.pdf. Under the section on reproductive/development trials, it states: "The risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes after exposure is unknown in humans, but nonclinical findings do not suggest a specific risk. Pregnancy is an exclusion criterion in the ongoing clinical trials."