Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/5p8RfY3bZmg   There turns out to be good and bad news according to Boston University epidemiologists who looked at the relationship between CoVid and the ability of men and women to create offspring.  First the good headline: vaccination against CoVid does not reduce fertility.  Now the bad headline: an actual CoVid infection reduces the ability of men to father children at least temporarily.   The BU Pregnancy Study Online known by the acronym PRESTO studied 21,126 women and their male partners from December 2020 through November 2021.  The analyses indicated that CoVid vaccination with at least one dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine did not have any statistical impact good or bad on fertility for either women or men.   Men who tested positive appeared to suffer a fertility reduction of 18% during a 60 day period after infection.  Other studies have demonstrated that CoVid infection is associated with a reduction in sperm count