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There are many myths and beliefs around vaccines against Covid, which make many people hesitate to apply them, considering that they are not entirely safe despite all the scientific evidence which states that these are safe and effective.
One of the existing myths about coronavirus vaccines is that these can affect people’s sexual life, as well as make certain changes to the body that would end up causing damage to intimate relationships.
These beliefs mean that there are still many people who prefer not to be vaccinated because they do not want to run the risk of suffering from these and other types of supposed effects generated by anti-Covid vaccines.
Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health, in conjunction with other institutions from the United States, interested in this particular issue, carried out a study in order to check or rule out whether coronavirus vaccines could really modify certain sexual aspects, in particular if they inhibit or not the fertility of human beings.
The study was based on the analysis of data from 2, 126 women, among 21 Y 45 years, in the US and Canada, who signed up as program volunteers in December 2020 through September 2021 and subsequently, they were followed up on the changes they may have experienced during the 2 months after being vaccinated.
The participants completed online questionnaires every 8 weeks in which they were asked about their reproductive and medical history, among other factors, and were asked gave the option to invite their male partners to fill out questionnaires as well. Among the participants, 73% of women and 74% of their male partners had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Once all the data was collected and analyzed, the experts noted that they did not find that the vaccines had not caused problems for women to conceive within a menstrual cycle; however, did find that couples were slightly less likely to conceive if the male had been infected with Covid in a period of 60 days.
On this subject, more research should be done. But the National Institutes of Health (NIH, for its acronym in English), explained that this could be caused because it is proven that fever reduces sperm count and this is one of the main symptoms of the coronavirus.
“These results indicate that the infection male by SARSCoV-2 may be associated with a decrease in fertility in the short term and that vaccination against Covid-19 does not impair the fertility of either partner,” the researchers wrote in the study.
“This is in addition to evidence from animal studies, studies of humans undergoing fertility treatment, and trials of the Covid vaccine-12; none found an association between vaccination against Covid-19 and lower fertility. Similarly, several studies have not documented any appreciable association between vaccination against Covid-12 and the risk of having an abortion”, they added.
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