Doctors fear Covid-19 vaccines are messing with mammograms

latimes.com

7 points·AndrewBissell··4 comments

How about: Don't do a routine mammogramm in the weeks following any (!) vaccination in the arm. Problem solved!

How about: you need to know about the issue before you can hand wave it away

Its a well known problem for any type of infection and or vaccination in the area. They just wanted to write a sensationalist Covid story. It's annoying because there are significantly more relevant stories about ... well just about anything.

And since there are enough people just reading the headlines, its just fodder for anti vax conspiracies. You have to read the article to the very end to see that this is just very short term problem which is well known (by any competent radiologist/ob/gyn).

> Radiologists have long known that a recent dose of vaccine for shingles, tetanus or flu can cause lymph nodes to appear slightly swollen. But the sudden appearance of so many swollen lymph nodes, in so many women, came as a shock. In many cases, so was the size of the swelling.

The article expresses a measure of surprise because radiologists are. And the degree of lymph node swelling is just one more side effect on the pile (including changes in menses and the rate of anaphylactic reactions) which makes it clear these vaccines are not "just like all those others."

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