A new study published on the JAMA network concludes that mRNA from COVID vaccines can be transmitted in small amounts through breast milk.
The authors of the study examined 11 “lactating individuals,” after getting either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA shots.
Nine of them were white, one black, and one Asian.
Five of the participants “had detectable vaccine mRNA in their breast milk.”
Three of them took the Pfizer shots and two of them took Moderna’s.
The mothers, aged between 22 and 37, got vaccinated between 4 to 25 weeks after delivery.
The authors used a technique called 2-step quantitative reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction….