An anonymously written June 14 WorldNetDaily article claimed:
A new study has suggested COVID shots, which already are known to cause serious side effects including heart ailments that can be fatal, also triggered a decline in male fertility.
A study done by researchers in Denmark analyzed fertility levels from thousands of men ages 18-45, with half in the 18-24 age group, and revealed COVID mRNA shots “have caused widespread harm to fertility rates.”
“During the study, the researchers examined the quality of semen in potential donors in Denmark between 2017 and 2022,” explained a report in Slay News.
Of those accepted as donors, about one-third of the total, “The study revealed that motile sperm concentration dropped by 16 percent,” a drop seen only during 2019-2022 when mRNA shots were being delivered.
[…]Study authors said, “Such a sharp decline in sperm motility to occur over a relatively short length of time suggests that external factors were likely to have played a role. In this context, we note that the observed decline in sperm motility roughly corresponds to the onset of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.”
WND’s big mistake here is to once again uncritically repeat something from the far-right Slay News; as we noted the last time WND stole a story from that operation, Slay News has been rated unreliable due to its “conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, right-wing propaganda, poor sourcing, lack of transparency, failed fact checks, and blatant plagiarism.” Another obvious sign that the Slay article is filled with misinformation is the statement — uncritically repeated by WND — that the drop in motile sperm was “seen only during 2019-2022 when mRNA shots were being delivered.” In fact, COVID vaccines weren’t approved until December 2020 and weren’t widely available until well into 2021, showing that Slay News (and, thus, WND) are fudging numbers in an attempt to make the vaccines look bad and falsely implicate them as the main culprit.
Which, as it turns out, was not even a finding from the study, despite the WND headline “Disturbing study: COVID shots destroyed young men’s fertility.” A more reliable news operation reported that the study — contrary to Slay News’ and WND’s assertions, “revealed no significant changes over a six-year period,” with “no clear patterns” found. It continued:
The team suggested the Covid pandemic might have played a role in the decline, noting lockdowns might have led to changes in working patterns, diet and levels of physical activity – factors that can affect sperm motility.
But Pacey said the decline was unlikely to be down to the virus itself as infection rates were not high in Denmark and Covid only affects sperm quality temporarily.
WND did hint at that finding, admitting that the researchers “noted lifestyle changes, including the now-proven ineffective lockdowns, also may have played a role in the changes,” but it buried that revelation in the second-to-last paragraph of the article.
The final paragraph contained more bogus fearmongering, stating that the discredited Slay News report noted that “a separate study ‘found alarming changes in motility which were closely correlated to the COVID mRNA injections.'” Again, credible news media were once again Slay’s and WND’s downfall; the 2022 study in question actually found that while sperm count dropped by 15 percent among 37 sperm donors in Israel after receiving the vaccine, they returned to pre-vaccine levels after 145 days.