“So the jury’s still out a little bit on whether it’s the fact that women were getting the vaccine, or if in fact, this is more common in women,” she said. It’s not that the vaccine necessarily caused more blood clots in women, she said, but it could be that more women were getting inoculated. “What we do know is that in the places where the blood clots happened the most and the earliest, so in Europe, they were vaccinating health care workers with AstraZeneca and health care workers tend to be women,” she explained. We don’t actually know that gender is a risk factor for that blood clot issue.” She said while some side effects, like fatigue and a sore arm, are typically felt in women more than men, “the blood clot one is a little bit different. Kelly Grindrod, a pharmacist and professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy, said although women are reporting more blood clots it may be too early to link gender to the vaccine. This is called unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy (UAL). What are some of the side effects reported by women? Swollen lymph nodesĪs vaccines are rolled out, doctors are seeing more and more swollen lymph nodes in recently immunized people, according to an article from Yale Medicine.Īs a normal side effect to most vaccines, the axillary lymph nodes in the armpit area on the side where vaccination took place can temporarily swell up or become enlarged - a sign that the vaccine is working by mounting an immune response. So I think there’s a real biological plausibility to what we’re seeing,” Dresser said. “Estrogen doesn’t just cause you to cause antibody responses to vaccines, but it’s why women tend to have a higher incidence of autoimmune disorders, so things like lupus, rheumatic arthritis or things that are autoimmune where your body’s kind of fighting against itself. That may be why fewer men report side effects, she said. She said following the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, women of reproductive age were four times more likely to have adverse reactions to the shot, even though more men received the vaccine, according to a 2013 study on hypersensitivity disorders following vaccinations.Ĭonversely, really high levels of testosterone can be immunosuppressive. And estrogen is able to stimulate an immune response by binding to immune cells and producing antibodies. Nearly all of them (more than 98%) remain loyal to the same brand when they go back for a third shot (Pfizer recipients boost with Pfizer, Moderna recipients with Moderna.) Some are boosting their single shot of J&J with a second shot of the same, while others are topping it up with a jab of mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna.The side effects are usually higher in women of child-bearing age because that’s when they produce the most estrogen, she explained. More than 21,900 people have reported their third dose side effects using the CDC's v-safe text messaging system.
"It is wealthier people, it is more highly educated people who are going out and getting boosters on their own." Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown School of Public Health, told a group of journalists recently, explaining how he had recently been at a dinner where roughly a quarter of attendees had boosted themselves. More than 2.3 million Americans have gotten booster doses already, according to CDC data, a number that most certainly includes people who are not immunocompromised. Most are sticking to the same brand, and reporting milder side effects Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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