A global phenomenon, the misinformation against vaccines on the Internet, feeds the suspicion of the citizens, influencing the vaccination campaigns, as broadcast by the French News Agency AFP.
The main axis of toxic misinformation is the exaggeration or invention of side effects, to make it believed that "vaccines are more dangerous than Covid".
Adverse effects of malicious use of numbers, since pharmacovigilance figures serve as an inexhaustible field of misinformation.
These records, which are usually public, record side effects in vaccinated people, but without proof of cause or effect.
In most countries the relevant reports can be made by ordinary citizens or members of the health staff. And it is the job of the health authorities to determine if vaccines are the cause of the side effects. In this way, the death of a vaccinated person may have been recorded, with nothing to do with the vaccine other than the coincidence of time.
In fact, only in very rare cases - out of the billions of doses given - have health authorities considered a cause-and-effect relationship possible (for example, cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis).
However, the benefit / risk ratio remains in favor of vaccination to a very large extent. However, countless social media posts systematically claim that vaccines have caused "thousands of deaths", using a screenshot from pharmacovigilance reports as "proof".
And all this, to conclude that the vaccine causes more deaths from Alzheimer's disease, infertility, D
DNA: rumors without scientific basis
"I read on the Internet and heard on the street that the vaccine causes infertility," women in Europe, Africa and the Americas continue to say, despite the fact that experts around the world explain that the idea lacks a complete scientific basis and that nothing there is nothing in the vaccine that causes infertility.
Another toxic rumor associated with Covid vaccine
The gossip also lacks a completely scientific basis and is "based" on a pseudo-research written by a vaccinator. But the biggest success of all the toxic rumors is the theory that was released before vaccines were even released, according to which vaccines based on mRNA technology modify human DNA.
However, the messenger RNA of the vaccine does not penetrate to the nucleus of the cell where the DNA is located.
The vaccine that makes you a magnet: between the farce and the pseudoscience
In 2021, TikTok filled videos with people holding a magnet or a teaspoon in their arm to "prove" that mRNA technology vaccines turn us into magnets. Reputation is based on two false theories. On the one hand, vaccines contain minerals, and on the other hand, they use a technique called magnetofection, which uses magnetic fields to transfer DNA elements to a cell.
Many independent scientists around the world reiterate and explain that vaccines do not contain minerals. Even more, in order for a magnet to act through the skin, it would need a piece of metal so large that it could not go unnoticed. As for the magnetofection method, it is just an experimental field in research, which has nothing to do with the vaccines on the market.
Other rumors are based on another theory that vaccines contain graphene in any case, with a little double-sided tape and the help of sweat, it is not very difficult to make such a video.
The deaths of famous vaccinators
When former US Secretary of State Colin Powell died at the age of 84, social media was flooded with posts in all languages of the world that this death is proof that vaccines are ineffective. But no one was interested in adding the information that Colin Powell was suffering from two serious diseases, such as multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that affects the immune system and Parkinson's.
As both pharmaceutical companies and scientists have explained, the effectiveness of vaccines is reduced in the elderly and in people with underlying diseases, even more so when the immune system is weakened.
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