URGENT: Giving mRNA Covid vaccines to pregnant rats caused brain changes and autism-like behavior in their young, a new study shows

Naturally, the disturbing finding - which was published in a respected, peer-reviewed journal last week - didn't come from American scientists.

The babies of pregnant rats given Pfizer’s mRNA Covid shot had sharply lower levels of a protein crucial for learning and memory, Turkish researchers have reported.

The male rat offspring also displayed behaviors that correlate to autism in humans, including reduced sociability and repetitive behaviors, the researchers reported. (Female rats did not show similar behaviors; but males generally have higher rates of autism.) The peer-reviewed journal Neurochemical Research published the findings, from four researchers at a medical university in Istanbul.

The study coved only about 40 rats, and it does not prove the vaccines cause autism or similar brain changes in the children of vaccinated pregnant women.

But it does show - again - that the jabs can cause powerful inflammatory and autoimmune responses with unknown consequences, and that their long-term risks have barely been studied.

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The Turkish researchers did not sugarcoat their findings, writing:

Notably, male rats exhibited pronounced autism-like behaviors, characterized by a marked reduction in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behavior. Furthermore, there was a substantial decrease in neuronal counts in critical brain regions, indicating potential neurodegeneration or altered neurodevelopment. Male rats also demonstrated impaired motor performance, evidenced by reduced coordination and agility.

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(Luckily Pfizer did a ton of work to make sure this wouldn’t be problem in humans. Oh, they didn’t? Hey, everyone makes mistakes.)

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The findings will raise even more questions about whether pregnant women should receive mRNA Covid jabs, an issue that has been controversial for three years.

Pregnant women were excluded in 2020 from the big clinical trials that led to the approval of the shots, but ever since regulators and obstetricians have strongly encouraged them to take the shots. The reason is that pregnancy causes weight gain and blood pressure changes that increase Covid risk.

Still, many women, especially healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies, have a very low baseline risk from Covid and have avoided the jabs.

The obvious failure of the jabs against Omicron has only increased that reluctance. Almost no pregnant women are now getting mRNA boosters.

Yet the Centers for Disease Control and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology continue to recommend the shots for pregnant women.

(An aside: because the mRNAs frequently cause menstrual cycle changes, some mRNA skeptics believe the jabs cause miscarriage and stillbirth. But a large study from Norway in 2022 showed definitively they do not. An even bigger dataset from Britain proves women who receive the shots do not have a higher risk of stillbirth or preterm or low-birthweight babies, though it does not cover miscarriage.)

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(No, the mRNAs don’t cause miscarriages.)

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However, the potential autism and brain changes the Turkish researchers found are much harder to track and diagnose than obvious problems like low birthweight or pre-term birth.

Linking them to vaccines given years before will would require large-scale epidemiologic studies, along with expensive basic research to determine potential mechanisms of action.

As the Turkish researchers concluded:

Further research is warranted to validate these findings in human populations and to unravel the complex mechanisms underlying the observed effects.

But neither governments nor vaccine companies have shown any inclination to do that work. And so even if autism diagnoses notably rise in the next few years, proving the mRNAs are responsible will be next to impossible.

An outcome that’ll work out fine for everyone involved - except kids with autism and their families.