Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Update #11: With news of the FDA emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine, ASRM today released a new statement from its COVID-19 Task Force.

The ASRM COVID-19 Task Force statement emphasizes the importance of shared decision making between patients and their physicians but is very clear that, “The Task Force does not recommend withholding the vaccine from patients who are planning to conceive, who are currently pregnant, or who are breastfeeding and encourages patients undergoing fertility treatment to receive vaccination based on current eligibility criteria.”

The report also states that virus mitigation strategies, such as universal masking, physical distancing and reducing social interactions must be followed even though some people now have access to a vaccine.

In addition, the statement addresses head-on a piece of misinformation which has been circulated by antivaccine ideologues and states that the mRNA vaccines “are not thought to cause an increased risk of infertility, first or second trimester loss, stillbirth, or congenital anomalies.”

Read the Full Text Recommendations:

• Update #11 - published December 16, 2020
• Update #10 - published November 17, 2020
• Update #9 - published October 12, 2020
• Update #8 - published September 8, 2020
• Update #7 - published August 10, 2020
• Update #6 - published July 10, 2020
• Update #5 - published June 8, 2020
• Update #4 - published May 11, 2020
• Update #3 - published April 24, 2020
• Update #2 - published April 13, 2020
• Update #1 - published March 30, 2020
• Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic - published March 17, 2020