‘The more we talk about it, the more we’re validating the symptoms’: What we know about COVID vaccine side effects in women

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Women have been more likely than men to report adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines — and public-health experts say preparing them for the range of possible side effects could help combat vaccine hesitancy.

Women accounted for about 79% of adverse-event reports — most of them deemed “nonserious” — related to Pfizer PFE, +0.36% -BioNTech BNTX, +1.70% and Moderna MRNA, -3.76% coronavirus vaccine doses administered in the U.S. from Dec. 14 to Jan. 13, despite receiving only 61% of administered doses, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Meanwhile, reports of post-vaccination lymph node swelling have spurred concern over potential false positives in breast-cancer screenings. And researchers, based on emerging anecdotal reports, are gathering survey data from people who say they experienced unusual short-term changes in their menstrual cycle after getting vaccinated.

“ ‘Many drugs on the market today are based on dosages that were measured against the male body and then stated to be effective for everybody.’ ” You may want to reschedule your upcoming mammogram Some patients who received COVID-19 vaccines have reported temporary lymph-node swelling in their underarm. This type of inflammation signals a healthy immune response, but could trigger a false positive on a mammogram, said Jennifer Lighter, a hospital epidemiologist at NYU Langone Health.

The vaccines are unlikely to pose risks for pregnancy or fertility While trials for the currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines did not include pregnant individuals, experts believe the vaccines are “unlikely to pose a specific risk for people who are pregnant,” the CDC says. As for individuals scheduled for reproductive-care treatments such as egg retrieval, embryo transfer and intrauterine insemination, ASRM recommends avoiding coronavirus vaccination for at least three days before and three days after the procedure.

Serious blood clots after vaccination are extremely rare Federal health officials have stressed that cerebral venous sinus thrombosis , the type of blood clot seen in combination with low blood-platelet levels in the six U.S. women who received the J&J vaccine, is “extremely rare” and has only occurred in less than one in a million vaccinated individuals.

There are anecdotal reports of menstrual-cycle changes Katharine Lee, a biological anthropologist and postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

 

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Do you think this is what people really need right now?

Hmmm wonder how many baby’s will be born in 2022...

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