The journal Science Advances issued the fallout of a study on Friday describing links between the Covid vaccine and changes to menstruation. They revealed that "42% of people with regular menstrual cycles bleed more heavily than usual." The study also indicated that women who were post-menopause or who use long-term contraceptives reported unexpected breakthrough bleeding after taking the vaccine.
NBC reports that the survey was administered to 39,000 participants between the ages of 18 to 80 who were vaccinated with Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax vaccines. People between 45 and 55 were excluded to avoid the inclusion of body changes due to menopause.
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Study co-author Katherine M.N. Lee said the people to blame for the misinformation about vaccines and menstruation are white men. She said menstruation, "gets ignored because of the structure of science."
"There are very few senior people in science and medicine who are not white men," Lee said. "It’s just not something they are thinking about as part of their lived experience."
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In 2021, many reports of changes to menstruation-related to the COVID vaccine were called anecdotal or labeled misinformation.
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In April 2021, The Guardian published an article saying that "no data" linked the vaccine to menstruation side effects and stated, "Experts are trying to assuage concerns and combat misinformation about how the Covid-19 vaccines may affect menstrual cycles and fertility, after anecdotal reports that some people experienced earlier, later, heavier or more painful periods following the jab."
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Later into the summer, many women were expressing concerns that the changes in menstruation could be linked to fertility issues. Science Advances noted that "individuals and organizations conflated the possibility of short-term menstrual changes with long-term harms to fertility." Those organizations included establishment news outlets such as NPR and Axios, as well as the NIH.
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By July 2021, NPR published an article called "The Life Cycle Of A COVID-19 Vaccine Lie" and quoted Alice Lu-Culligan, an MD-PhD candidate at Yale University, who downplayed the connections and said the "vaccine could temporarily alter" the menstruation process at worst. The article maintained that "a mountain of scientific evidence" showed that "the vaccines are safe and effective." NPR, which recently launched a disinformation division, issued a correction not about the link but note that the writers used the word "woman" instead of "people who menstruate" when first published in 2021.
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In October 2021, Axios deemed "anecdotes about COVID-19 vaccines affecting a person's menstrual cycle" as "disinformation" used to stymy "efforts to halt the pandemic."
By January of this year the Imperial College of London wrote the "COVID vaccination impact on menstrual cycle appears to be small and short lived."
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