"Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester," Fauci wrote. She told Fauci his concern was "definitely a good point, [especially] after dose two." So, here we have the nation's top infectious disease bureaucrat raising a theoretical miscarriage risk with the CDC director, and she agreed it was worth taking seriously. The FDA, he said, had "found thus far, and we have to be careful, but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women." Fauci wasn't protecting pregnant women.