What doctors forgot to tell women about COVID vaccines

October 28, 2022
by RJ Hamster

MENSTRUAL CYCLES DISRUPTED BY COVID, VACCINES

Friday, October 28, 2022

In today’s newsletter, we find a surge in kids getting an often-deadly virus; discover links between COVID, vaccines, and menstrual cycles; catch a discovery in an ancient palace; find America’s most haunted places … and learn that the world’s best chocolate has just gotten better. Oh and Happy National Chocolate Day!

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Women getting COVID were not told. Women getting COVID vaccines were not told.

Both the coronavirus and the protection against it really mess up menstrual cycles. For artist Raven La Fae, long after suffering through the virus and getting vaccines, her periods have not returned to normal—sometimes lasting up to 13 days a month.

“When COVID started, we were worried about people dying, so other things were overlooked,” says Yale obstetrician Hugh Taylor. The omission created fear, because women have been told menstrual changes could signal a hormonal imbalance, or even cancer. Why did menstrual cycles change? And why did this news take so long to get out?

Read the full story here. (Pictured above, an X-ray image of the female reproductive system.)

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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The latest surge: It’s happening across America: Little kids, struggling to get oxygen, being carried into hospital emergency rooms. It’s not COVID. It’s a respiratory virus known as RSV (pictured above) that kills more than 100,000 kids a year under the age of five. Experts fear the seasonal virus has not yet reached its peak, but treatment is close to approval—and may be widely available for next year’s RSV attacks, Nat Geo reports.

THE ‘OTHER’ VIRUS

PHOTO OF THE DAY

PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL ZIZKA, @PAULZIZKAPHOTO

A Strawberry Moon: In a few adrenaline-filled seconds, photographer Paul Zizka managed to freeze a perfect moment in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert: A camel and his handler, Mr. Unurbat, framed by the rising June supermoon—also known as the Strawberry Moon. Three lunar events must coincide to create a supermoon, which makes this photograph on our Nat Geo Adventure Instagram account even more rare.

WHAT MAKES A SUPERMOON?

LAST GLIMPSE

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Teen horror: It began as a contest among friends during a rain-drenched summer. Who could write the best scary story? The youngest member, Mary Shelley, just 18, won with a tale that would shape modern horror. Years later, she recalled the nightmarish vision from which Frankenstein was written. It had, she said, “a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.” (Above, a scene from the 1931 movie based on the novel.)

THE MONSTER

(Readers, a staggering number of pumpkins end up in landfills. How do you avoid pumpkin waste—compost them, eat the seeds, make a pie or bread? Let us know at sarah.gibbens@natgeo.com — and Happy Halloween!)

This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Sydney Combs, Jen Tse, and Heather Kim. Thanks for reading!

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What doctors forgot to tell women about COVID vaccines

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