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Feelings of exhaustion, irritability and mental fogginess are our bodies normal response to an abnormal year of pandemic life.
In recent weeks, Dr. Kali Cyrus has struggled with periods of exhaustion. I am taking a nap in between patients, says Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University. I m going to bed earlier. It s hard to even just get out of bed. I don t feel like being active again.
Exhaustion is also one of the top complaints she hears from her patients these days. They say things like, It s just so hard to get out of bed or I ve been misplacing things more often, she says.
Can COVID-19 vaccines affect my period?
ALI SWENSON and ARIJETA LAJKA, Associated Press
May 6, 2021
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Can COVID-19 vaccines affect my period?
It s not known, but researchers are starting to study the issue.
Vaccines are designed to activate your immune system, and some experts have wondered if that could temporarily disrupt menstrual cycles.
So far, reports of irregular bleeding have been anecdotal. And it’s hard to draw any links to the vaccines since changes could be the result of other factors including stress, diet and exercise habits. There s also a lack of data tracking changes to menstrual cycles after vaccines in general.
How the Senateâs Long-Term Equilibrium Could Shape Democratic Decisions on the Filibuster
A Commentary By Louis Jacobson
Thursday, May 06, 2021
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â A majority of states are now either solidly Republican or solidly Democratic on the presidential level, and the party a state prefers for president increasingly has a big edge in winning the stateâs two Senate seats. Given these patterns, itâs possible to game out the basic contours of what the Senate âshouldâ look like in the near future, barring some unexpected upheaval.
â Allocating Senate seats based on current presidential preferences produces an equilibrium of about 53 seats for the Republicans and 47 seats for the Democrats.