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Why is there a substantial decrease in births in Germany and Switzerland – nine months after the beginning of covid mass vaccinations?
Swiss Policy Research ^ | June 2022

Posted on 06/26/2022 12:33:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos

An Israeli study recently published in the scientific journal Andrology found a 15% decrease in sperm concentration three months after mRNA covid vaccination.

The authors argued the decrease was temporary, but the data didn’t actually show a recovery, just a wider confidence interval. However, the study was very small (just 37 participants), it had no control group (to exclude external effects), and several other studies found no such decrease in sperm concentration – some even found a supposed increase, highlighting that such measurements can be quite complex.

Thus, contrary to claims by some covid vaccine skeptics, the recent Israeli study didn’t prove that covid mRNA vaccination reduces sperm concentration or quality. In fact, there is currently no strong evidence showing such an effect. On the other hand, a covid infection may temporarily impact sperm quality, but this is not unexpected after any infection or disease.

That being said, new birth data out of Germany and Switzerland raises some serious questions. Specifically, both countries recorded a consistent 10% to 15% decrease (compared to expectations) in monthly births from January to March/April 2022 (the latest available data) – that is, precisely nine months after the beginning of covid mass vaccination in the general population in April/May 2021 (see charts above and below).

How can this substantial decrease be explained? Is it due to behavioral or biological factors?

The German winter lockdown ended only in May 2021, whereas the much softer Swiss lockdown ended already in early March 2021. Data from Britain and from New York had already shown that during the first lockdowns in early 2020, 10% to 20% fewer babies were being conceived. Thus, it is possible that the decrease in German and Swiss birth rates is a direct or indirect result of lockdowns, although the time frames do not entirely match (no decrease in late 2021, nor in late 2020).

In terms of biological factors, Germany and Switzerland both had two covid delta waves in summer and early winter of 2021 that may have influenced live birth rates (e.g. by increasing miscarriages), although the decrease in births is really only visible since January 2022. Recent birth data from other countries, including Britain and the US, does not seem to be available yet (see updates below).

What about covid vaccinations? Covid vaccinations could influence fertility and conception, miscarriages (prior to week 20, normally affecting 10% to 20% of all pregnancies, sometimes undetected) and/or stillbirths (after week 20, normally affecting about 0.5% of all pregnancies). Previous studies argued that covid vaccination had no impact on stillbirths, but independent reanalysis showed that the data does in fact indicate a 30% increase in stillbirths.

Furthermore, there have been widespread and officially acknowledged reports of post-vaccination menstrual disorders (over 30,000 reports in Britain alone); official reports of vaccine adverse events including death in breastfeeding babies (over 60 reported cases in Germany alone); a still unexplained, transient increase in neonatal deaths in countries like Scotland; and reports by Austrian midwives of an increase in irregularities during pregnancy and delivery after covid vaccination. Meanwhile, Pfizer has never even finished its vaccine trial in pregnant women.

Covid vaccines might impact conception and pregnancy in direct ways (e.g. via ovaries or sperm cells) or in indirect ways (e.g. via immunological, hormonal or vascular factors, including micro blood clots). An official Japanese biodistribution study showed that non-trivial amounts of Pfizer mRNA vaccine lipid nanoparticles do indeed end up in the ovaries, but there is currently no evidence that this impacts ovarian follicular function in a negative way.

There is also the possibility that some women, knowing that they would soon get vaccinated, decided to delay pregnancy. In this case, one would expect to see a rebound of the birth rate within a few months.

In conclusion, data from both Germany and Switzerland does show a substantial 10% to 15% monthly decrease in live births from January 2022 to at least April 2022. This decrease could be due to behavioral or biological effects, including covid vaccinations that began nine months earlier.

Health authorities and researchers should urgently investigate the true cause or causes of this phenomenon based on data from additional countries with and without lockdowns as well as with and without mRNA-nanolipid vaccines.

Meanwhile, the director of the Danish National Health Authority recently acknowledged that vaccinating children against covid was “a mistake” and that they “wouldn’t do it again”.

Updates A similar decline in births since early 2022 is visible in Britain, Norway, Slovenia and Taiwan, but not in California. In some cases this may be preliminary data. States that saw a lockdown-related decrease in births may see a subsequent rebound. In most countries, pregnant women were not among priority vaccination groups, but women working in healthcare typically were.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doesthiseverstop; itneverstops; notanewsarticle; notanewssite; tenmonthsnotnine
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1 posted on 06/26/2022 12:33:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Because the vaccine has decided that it doesn’t like Germans and Swiss.


2 posted on 06/26/2022 12:37:08 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Mount Athos

Germans have sperm?


3 posted on 06/26/2022 12:38:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Mount Athos
Meanwhile...

Libtard Nurse Practitioner says she prescribes medication based on her patients’ political affiliation and race.

California Plotting to Punish Medical Dissent

4 posted on 06/26/2022 12:41:26 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Socon-Econ

People locked inside, and yet birth decrease. 🤔


5 posted on 06/26/2022 12:41:59 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: Mount Athos

Just between you and me it is not necessarily a bad thing to have less Germans.

Europe might be a little safer.

5.56mm


6 posted on 06/26/2022 12:44:12 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: Mount Athos

Gee what a mystery ...

I wonder why ...


7 posted on 06/26/2022 12:45:53 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Mount Athos

Exodus 1:7
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.


8 posted on 06/26/2022 12:51:18 PM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Must be ...... Global Warming!!!


9 posted on 06/26/2022 12:57:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Jeff Chandler

They used to.


10 posted on 06/26/2022 1:01:04 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket?)
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To: Mount Athos

Does 37 men really constitute a study?


11 posted on 06/26/2022 1:02:19 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne

The article criticized the study on sperm count in the first paragraphs.

But the bulk of the article and central argument is not about this study.

I hope you take the time to read the rest of the article.


12 posted on 06/26/2022 1:05:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

related from Dr. Robert W. Malone:

Testimony and Remarks, Pandemic Response; In preparation for Texas Senate hearings tomorrow (6/27/2022)

FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4074112/posts


13 posted on 06/26/2022 1:09:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: M Kehoe
Just between you and me it is not necessarily a bad thing to have less Germans.

I, OTOH, wish there were many more Germans. A fine people, with a long and proud history. What would classical music be without Germans? Not to mention their contributions to chemistry, physics, art, literature, philosophy, theology, architecture, and much else.

14 posted on 06/26/2022 1:09:20 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Mount Athos

The White Genocide Project continues space.


15 posted on 06/26/2022 1:16:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Mount Athos

This is all part of their depopulation plan.


16 posted on 06/26/2022 1:17:36 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Mount Athos

Predicted side effect of the notavax.
It’s gonna get worse.


17 posted on 06/26/2022 1:18:33 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Just let me say in response. Counting sperm is imprecise and subjective. Glad to be out of that work, for now.


18 posted on 06/26/2022 1:21:40 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: ransomnote; Cathi; metmom; grey_whiskers; bagster; tatown; Enlightened1; cgbg; SecAmndmt; ...

IBTFR$$s smearing this source/study ping.


19 posted on 06/26/2022 1:25:24 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Mount Athos
. The authors argued the decrease was temporary, but the data didn’t actually show a recovery, just a wider confidence interval

What do they mean when they say "wider confidence interval"?

20 posted on 06/26/2022 1:25:40 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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