The vaccination campaign in Ukraine is constantly overgrown with fakes. The Ministry of Health has decided to refute the most popular new myths about vaccination against COVID-19
Myth 1
The side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are dozens of times greater than those of influenza vaccines.
Information is spread on social networks that the side effects of vaccines against COVID-19 are dozens of times higher than the negative reactions from influenza vaccines. This is a study by the Israeli sociologist and criminologist Josh Getsklva, who referred to the American VAERS database. But the information in the database does not indicate a causal relationship between vaccination and an adverse event after it. VAERS is not considered a reliable source of information on side effects following vaccination and does not guarantee a causal relationship between these events.
Myth 2
IPhone 13 users must confirm vaccination status before unlocking the phone.
There was information that the screen of the new iPhone model can be unlocked only with the help of a vaccination passport. It was as if Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said this during the presentation of the iPhone. However, such messages are not true. The news was invented by the satirical edition The Babylon Bee.
Myth 3
The CDC has changed the definition of the word "vaccine" and confirmed its ineffectiveness.
Supporters of the anti-vaccination movement on social media say that the fact that the definition of the word "vaccine" has been changed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is due to its quality.
The CDC has indeed changed the definition of the term "vaccine" somewhat. But despite the bureaucratic formalities, the coronavirus vaccines continue to fulfill the tasks for which they were designed. The drugs protect a person from a severe course of the disease, possible hospitalization and even death.
After being vaccinated against coronavirus, a person does not become a carrier of infection / istockphoto.com
Myth 4
After being vaccinated against COVID-19, a person becomes a carrier of the infection.
After vaccination, a person does not become a carrier of the infection, since none of the vaccines approved for use in Europe contain live coronavirus. There is also no evidence that vaccines cause a more severe course of COVID-19, and vaccinated people get sick twice as often.
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