COVID-19 puts spotlight on disparities in research on women s health
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When Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, each say they experienced unexpected menstrual cycles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, they did what researchers do and began to collect data.
Health experts explained why women report more side effects after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine than men.
(Photo : Milos Bicanski/Getty Images) A woman receives a dose of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus disease.
Women Reports More Side Effects
From December 14 to January 13, almost 7,000 cases were processed through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Vaccine Adverse Effect Reporting System, with more than 79 percent of them coming from women. Headache, nausea, and dizziness were the most often recorded side effects.
Women are much more likely than men to suffer some of the vaccine s more unusual side effects, such as an itchy red rash at the injection site known as the COVID arm or Moderna arm, since the Moderna vaccine accounts for about 95 percent of the reactions. Women account for 77 percent of the confirmed side effects of the Moderna vaccine, according to a published article in The USA Today.
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Reports of COVID-19 vaccine side effects support what many have anecdotally observed: women shoulder the bigger burden.
Among nearly 7,000 reports processed through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from Dec. 14 to Jan. 13, more than 79% of them came from women. The most frequently reported side effects were headache, fatigue and dizziness.
Women also are more likely than men to experience some of the vaccine’s more unusual side effects, such as an itchy red rash that appears at the injection site commonly known as COVID arm or Moderna arm, as about 95% of the reactions occur with the Moderna vaccine. Overall, women account for 77% of the Moderna vaccine’s reported side effects.
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