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by gus_massa 1363 days ago
Is this surprising? A lot of medicines pass to breast milk and are not recommended n that cases. I'm not sure if someone has tried with mRNA before.

> This study investigated whether the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA can be detected in the expressed breast milk (EBM) of lactating individuals receiving the vaccination within 6 months after delivery.

Perhaps my English is bad, but IIUC the abstract makes the question if there is mRNA from the vaccine after 6 months, but it does not answer it. I can't find a good article about that https://www.google.com/search?q=mrna+vaccine+degradation+rat... but my guess is a few days. I'll be very surprised it survives a month inside the body.

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>> 6 months after delivery.

> Perhaps my English is bad,

Now I think I misunderstood this part. It's 6 months after "delivering" the children, not 6 months after "delivering" the vaccine.

It's surprising because at the time the mRNA vaccines were recommended to pregnant women (with next to zero testing), health authorities issued extensive assurances that the mRNA would remain localized to the injection site. Reuters even ran a fact-check article about it: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
I guess the study was too small