Though HHS has been circulating a document to justify the recent decision to no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women, studies included in the document largely found the vaccine to be safe, according to a new report.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distributed the document to lawmakers on Capitol Hill in recent days, Politico reported . The document says that studies have shown women who received the COVID vaccine during pregnancy had higher rates of complications. It also stated that "a number of studies in pregnant women showed higher rates of fetal loss if vaccination was received before 20 weeks of pregnancy," citing a population-based cohort study from Ontario, Canada .

However, the lead author of the study, Maria Velez, MD, PhD, of McGill University in M

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