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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷2/09/2021 10:40:51 pm PST

Antivaxxers are liars, part sixty-five thousand three:

Anti-vaxxers are using a doctor’s miscarriage to claim the COVID-19 vaccine affects pregnancy — but the doctor lost her baby before getting the shot Business Insider

When Dr. Michelle Rockwell woke up Sunday morning, just a couple months after suffering a pregnancy loss, she said she saw her photos plastered on social media claiming her miscarriage was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.

Rockwell screenshotted the circulating post, which no longer appears to be visible. 

Previously, Rockwell, an OB-GYN in Tulsa, had posted about her pregnancy loss on her account, @DoctorMommyMD, which has more than 26,000 followers. Separately, she had posted about her vaccination. 

But the anti-vaxx post baselessly linked the two, despite the fact that Rockwell suffered the miscarriage before she received the vaccine, she wrote in a post Monday addressing the incident and misinformation on the internet more generally. 

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