Your one stop shop on debunking myths surrounding the COVID 19 Vaccine!
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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