Your one stop shop on debunking myths surrounding the COVID 19 Vaccine!
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Answering The Myths
Click on the myths below to find answers from experts, revealing the truth behind each statement.
- MYTH: GPs are making a lot of money from COVID vaccinations
- MYTH: COVID is no more dangerous than the flu
- MYTH: COVID vaccine causes irreversible side effects [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: COVID is caused by the 5G network
- MYTH: COVID deaths are being exaggerated
- MYTH: Doctors want to force people to be vaccinated
- MYTH: The COVID vaccine ingredients are Haram
- MYTH: Vaccines contain aborted foetal cells
- MYTH: Vaccines are being used to chip and track the population
- MYTH: Vaccines are unsafe – that is why no pregnant women were in trials [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: Pharmaceutical companies are all evil so we can’t trust them
- MYTH: The vaccine was approved too quickly to be safe
- MYTH: The vaccine may modify your DNA
- MYTH: The inventor of the PCR test said it was not made to detect diseases such as COVID
- MYTH: PCR is inaccurate and overestimating COVID infections
- MYTH: 99.97% recover from COVID, but 3% get major side effects from vaccine [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: Wearing a mask is bad for your health
- MYTH: We should just wait for herd immunity
- MYTH: If hospitals are so busy why are Nightingale hospitals empty? [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: A nurse took the COVID vaccine & died on camera
- MYTH: There’s no point getting vaccinated due to new COVID strains [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: Vaccines contain alcohol & therefore are impermissible
- MYTH: The COVID Vaccine contains Genetically Modified Organisms which are harmful to humans
- MYTH: Vaccines contain pork or other animal derivatives
- MYTH: The COVID vaccines can give you COVID
- MYTH: COVID vaccines can make you infertile (unable to have children)
- MYTH: Catching COVID after having the vaccine is proof they don’t work
- MYTH: You don’t need vaccination if you already had COVID
- MYTH: You can choose which COVID vaccine you get [Updated 31/5/21]
- MYTH: If I decide not to take the vaccine, it does not affect others
- MYTH: I’m young & low risk so the COVID vaccine isn’t for me
- MYTH: Only the really sick & elderly are dying from COVID
- MYTH: There is no liability for anyone if the vaccines have problems
- MYTH: There are health professionals who object to the COVID vaccine
- MYTH: Vaccines should be 100% safe before being released to the public
- MYTH: People are dying from the COVID-19 vaccines [Updated 31/5/21]
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