2026-08-11T04:46:14.049Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
两名共和党议员公布了从安东尼·福奇博士前任政府手机中提取的首批短信，这是针对其在新冠疫情期间的领导表现及相关行动展开调查的一部分内容，其中包括他讨论新冠疫苗在妊娠期间可能存在的风险与安全性的短信。
威斯康星州参议员罗恩·约翰逊与肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗于周一在网上公开了这些短信。此前，美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）已将福奇的iPhone手机交给针对他展开调查的参议院小组委员会。
议员们在一份新闻稿中表示，该手机内包含超过3.4万条短信和522条语音邮件。他们公开了其中部分截图，即福奇担任美国国家过敏和传染病研究所（NIAID）所长期间发送的11条短信。
在2021年1月25日的一则对话中，时任美国总统拜登新冠疫情咨询委员会成员的维韦克·穆尔蒂博士询问了疫苗对孕妇可能存在的风险，或是福奇是否了解任何“支持在妊娠早期而非晚期接种疫苗的数据或理论依据”。
福奇回应称，“没有数据或理论依据表明妊娠早期接种疫苗比晚期更可取”。
随后他补充道：“由于许多人在接种第二剂疫苗后会出现严重的细胞因子风暴和发热症状，从理论上讲，这可能与妊娠早期的流产有关。”
时任美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）主任的罗谢尔·瓦伦斯基博士回复道：“这点确实很关键，尤其是在接种第二剂后。”
根据公开的截图，在次日的另一则对话中，福奇表示，任何针对妊娠人群数据有限的疫苗都应谨慎考量。他写道：“必须权衡潜在风险与收益”，并指出新冠感染在孕妇群体中“尤其”可能会引发重症。
共和党起诉福奇的前所未有的举措
共和党参议员兰德·保罗于周四正式建议司法部以藐视国会罪起诉安东尼·福奇博士，这推进了共和党批评者的大胆计划，即因这位知名科学家拒绝就美国政府新冠疫情应对措施作证而对其提起诉讼。CNN记者安妮·格雷尔报道。
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福奇在短信中写道，尽管孕妇未被纳入疫苗临床试验，但自政府为该疫苗颁发紧急使用授权以来，已有超过1万人接种了疫苗，且“未出现任何问题”。
美国有线电视新闻网已联系福奇、穆尔蒂和瓦伦斯基寻求置评。
美国疾控中心于2021年8月11日正式建议孕妇接种疫苗，此前该机构通过分析数据发现，疫苗并未增加流产或其他相关安全风险。
根据该机构网站的存档页面，美国疾控中心在疫情期间还曾警告称，孕妇比非孕妇更有可能发展为重症。
后续研究表明，疫苗在妊娠期间是安全的，严重不良反应极为罕见。截至今年春季，美国妇产科医师学会仍建议在秋季或冬季妊娠的孕妇接种年度新冠疫苗。
约翰逊和保罗在新闻稿中表示，其工作人员正在审查福奇手机内的其余信息，并将“尽快”公开。他们称，周一公布的短信“可能会对公共卫生和知情同意原则产生直接影响”。
该新闻稿还列出了福奇及其他卫生官员在此次短信对话后的几个月内发表的多项公开声明，这些声明均建议孕妇接种新冠疫苗。
作为参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会主席的保罗长期以来与福奇存在分歧，他于6月传唤福奇到国会作证。
他和其他知名共和党人指责福奇隐瞒疫情起源，并在新冠疫情应对期间撒谎、歪曲数据——尽管他们尚未拿出此类所谓隐瞒行为的确凿证据。
参议院小组委员会的共和党议员上周投票决定以藐视国会罪起诉福奇，此前福奇在一场听证会上援引第五修正案超过100次，拒绝回答问题，理由是担心他的回应会被用于对其提起诉讼。
民主党人将此次听证会视为共和党多年来试图将疫情批评从唐纳德·特朗普总统身上转移到福奇身上的最新例证。
康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔表示：“诋毁福奇博士的运动只是这场更大规模反科学、反事实运动的一部分，这场运动让美国民众的安全受到威胁。”
在此次听证会之前，该委员会还公开了福奇2019年至2022年期间的超过1100页个人日记。
据一位知情人士透露，美国卫生与公众服务部和保罗所在的委员会均未提前告知福奇他们获取了他的日记，并计划全文公开。
日记记录了福奇对新冠疫情日益增长的担忧、对政府应对措施的不满，以及与特朗普和拜登两届政府官员的矛盾关系。
Republican senators release Fauci’s text messages discussing safety of Covid vaccine and pregnancy
2026-08-11T04:46:14.049Z / CNN
Two Republican senators have released the first batch of text messages retrieved from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former government phone as part of an investigation into his leadership and actions during the Covid-19 pandemic – including messages in which he discusses the possible risks and safety of the vaccine during pregnancy.
Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released the texts publicly online Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided Fauci’s iPhone to a Senate subcommittee investigating him.
The phone contained more than 34,000 messages and 522 voicemails, said the senators in a news release. They published screenshots showing a fraction of these – 11 texts sent during Fauci’s tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
In one exchange on January 25, 2021, Dr. Vivek Murthy, then a member of President Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board, asked about any potential risk to those who are pregnant, or whether Fauci knew of any “data or theoretical reason why vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred.”
Fauci responded that there was “no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.”
Then he added: “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, then-director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), replied, “Definitely a good point, esp after dose two.”
In another exchange a day later, according to the screenshots released, Fauci said that any vaccine with limited data on pregnancy should be carefully considered. “One must weigh the potential risks against the benefits,” he wrote, pointing out that a Covid infection could be “especially” serious in pregnancy.
Republicans’ unprecedented move in their efforts to prosecute Fauci
Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday officially recommended that the Justice Department charge Dr. Anthony Fauci with contempt of Congress, advancing an audacious effort by GOP critics to prosecute the well-known scientist over his refusal to testify about the US government response to the Covid-19 pandemic. CNN’s Annie Grayer reports.
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Though pregnant individuals were not included in vaccine trials, more than 10,000 had been vaccinated since the government issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine – and “no issues have arisen,” he wrote in a text.
CNN has reached out to Fauci, Murthy and Walensky for comment.
The CDC formally recommended on August 11, 2021,that pregnant people receive the vaccine after analyzing data and finding no increased risks of miscarriage or other safety concerns related to the shot.
The CDC also warned during the pandemic that pregnant people were more likely to get severely ill compared to those who were not pregnant, according to an archived page from the agency’s website.
Studies have since shown that the vaccines were safe during pregnancy, and that serious adverse reactions are rare. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists still recommends, as of this spring, that individuals who are pregnant or will be pregnant during the fall or winter should receive annual Covid-19 vaccines.
In a news release, Johnson and Paul said their staff were reviewing the rest of the information on Fauci’s phone, and would publicly release them “as soon as possible.” The texts released on Monday “could have an immediate impact of public health and the principle of informed consent,” they said.
The news release also listed several further public statements made by Fauci and other health officials in the months following the text exchange, recommending pregnant people receive Covid-19 vaccines.
Paul,who chairs the full Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has long clashed with Fauci, who he subpoenaed in June to appear before Congress.
He and other prominent Republicans accuse Fauci of covering up the origins of the pandemic, and of lying and misrepresenting data during the Covid-19 response – though they’ve yet to present clear evidence of such an alleged cover-up.
Republican members of the Senate subcommittee voted last week to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times in a hearing, refusing to answer questions over concerns his responses would be used in an attempt to bring charges against him.
Democrats pointed to the hearing as the latest example of Republicans spending years trying to deflect pandemic criticisms away from President Donald Trump and toward Fauci.
“The campaign to vilify you, Dr. Fauci, is just one part of this larger campaign against science and facts — a campaign that has made Americans less safe,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
Ahead of that hearing, the committee also released more than 1,100 pages of Fauci’s personal diary from 2019 to 2022.
Neither HHS nor Paul’s committee alerted Fauci ahead of time that they had obtained his diary and that they planned to publish it in full, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The diary entries narrated Fauci’s growing concerns about Covid-19, frustrations with the government response and conflicting relationships with both Trump and Biden administration officials.