Vaccines are underway for approval.
Here, infectious disease experts debunk COVID-19 vaccine myths that you should stop believing.
Experts in This Article
biochemist, neurobiologist, antibody engineer, and senior scientist atGlaxoSmithKline.
Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS is an infectious disease epidemiologist and microbiologist.
She is the science communication lead at The COVID Tracking Project.
Paula D. Walker, MD, MPH, is a board-certified public health physician and microbiologist based in Atlanta.
biochemist, neurobiologist, antibody engineer, and senior scientist atGlaxoSmithKline.
Suzanne Pham is the medical director of the COVID-19 response team at Weiss Memorial Hospital.
Thisvaccine hesitancypartially stems from decades of racism and oppression entrenched in our health-care system.
In addition, people have also expressed doubts about vaccination because of vaccine misinformation.
Debunking COVID-19 vaccine myths, one at a time
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But that is absolutely false.
(The company received a $590 million loan to produce injectors for the COVID-19 vaccine.)
During the interview, Walker was asked about the companys Radio Frequency Identification Chip (RFID).
This is completely falseand a misunderstanding of the science behind the vaccines efficacy.
DNA replicates and stores your genetic information, whereas RNA converts genetic information to build proteins.
biochemist, neurobiologist, antibody engineer, and senior scientist atGlaxoSmithKline.
RNA has nothing to do with changing DNA.
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Weve been studying this modality for vaccines for over 10 years.
We started studying it with SARS, MERS, and influenza.
But this is the closest weve gotten to an approval, Rivera said.
According to Rivera, sterility was not found in any of the data.
Thats based on a very lazy approach to understanding some of the science, Rivera said.
But these are more-than-encouraging early indicators of safety.
Immunity starts to kick in at least seven days after the second dose, according toPfizer and the FDA.
For theModerna vaccine, immunity develops after 14 days after the second dose with 94.5 percent effectiveness.
So distancing, wearing masks, washing hands, those will need to remain, Dr. Pham says.
(Check with your vaccine administrator to get more specific guidance when you get your shot.)
COVID-19 is a medical issue.
Although we live in a world of misinformation, accurate and reliable information does exist.
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