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Anti-Covid vaccine and menstruation: update on side effects!

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If the (many) experts contacted by ELLE.fr did not wish to comment on a possible date for the end of the pandemic, some heads of state do not hesitate to claim that the worst is behind us. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, for example, announced on January 20 the end of most restrictions linked to Covid. Britons no longer have to wear masks indoors, telework is no longer mandatory, and the health pass is no longer required to go to a nightclub. A week later, it was Spain that eased the restrictions. And in Denmark, Prime Minister Mette Frediriksen estimated last week that the Covid was no longer a "disease threatening public health": all measures to fight the epidemic are definitively lifted this Tuesday, February 1.    In a new study published on Tuesday, the ANSM concludes that "the available data do not make it possible to determine the direct link between the vaccine and the occurrence [of menstrual disturbances]".  If studies and hindsight are still lackin...

Covid: will the end of the fifth wave sign the end of the pandemic!

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 In December 2021, while Omicron gave the end-of-year celebrations a taste of deja-vu and the air of "Hunger Games", everyone was asking the question: when would we finally see the end of the tunnel? More than a month later, the fifth wave is still in full swing. But the contagiousness of the variant, combined with the increasing rate of vaccination, gives hope to experts. Would we finally arrive at the famous “collective immunity”, announced since the start of the pandemic as the holy grail? Better yet, can we envisage a return to the "world before", without Covid. If the (many) experts contacted by ELLE.fr did not wish to comment on a possible date for the end of the pandemic, some heads of state do not hesitate to claim that the worst is behind us. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, for example, announced on January 20 the end of most restrictions linked to Covid. Britons no longer have to wear masks indoors, telework is no longer mandatory, and the health pa...

This is my story: It took me months to admit that I had been raped!

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Nora is 26 when, during a film shoot in Italy, a member of the crew rapes her.  Faced with the incomprehension of those around her, she locks herself in denial.  And this silence makes her sink. The sky was clear, blue as far as the eye could see, reaching the sea at our feet. The terrace of the bed and breakfast that hosted the team overlooked the Amalfi Coast. At 26, it was my first shoot as an assistant director, and the morning of our last day on location should have been perfect. Except something was wrong. I had body aches, a headache from hell. I put it down to my hangover and tried to piece together my memories of the night before. We had celebrated our last filmed sequence: copiously, given my condition. But how, where, with whom? Can't remember. “Wow, my hair is growing in my head this morning!!! » : that was Antoine, always very colorful when he speaks. Our sound engineer. I had spotted as soon as I checked in, he made me laugh. Not necessarily handsome, but big eno...