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FILM: The COVID Vaccine — A Shot in the Arm for Fertility Treatment?

Published 22 February 2021 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1084

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about vaccination and assisted conception...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'The COVID Vaccine: A Shot in the Arm for Fertility Treatment?'.

The event explores guidance and thinking on whether and when COVID vaccination is advisable, in the context of assisted conception and in relation to conception and pregnancy more generally.

(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)
Introduction
0:00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust
Presentations
0:03:53 Professor Jason Kasraie
Chair, Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists
0:17:06 Dr Anna Veiga
Coordinator, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's COVID-19 Working Group
0:30:23 Dr Sigal Klipstein
Member, American Society for Reproductive Medicine's COVID-19 Task Force
Discussion
0:39:47 Audience poll, and responses to audience questions and comments

This event was sponsored by:

This film of the event was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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