Myths And Fears Around The Covid-19 Vaccine
Ever since the vaccine for Covid-19 has been developed, fake news and rumour's about its safety and reliability are making rounds in social media. Here are some myths and facts, to clear the air.
We all are depend on social media since it gives us information instantly. When corona virus spread, everyone was thinking about a vaccine to combat the virus as we were fearful that there is no medicine for this. Finally our scientists did come out with the vaccine. We were relieved but now all we are thinking about is the vaccine’s side effects and efficacy. People are more likely to read negative messages about the vaccine on social media than positive ones. All of a sudden, anti-vaccine messages are doing the rounds. The rapid development of coronavirus vaccines has only compounded the fear of it.
One main fact about a vaccine is that every vaccine uses your body's natural defences to build resistance to infection by training your immune system to create antibodies. Just as it does when it’s exposed to the disease.
Myths about the vaccine
1. Natural immunity is better than vaccine-acquired immunity. A vaccine may weaken the immune system, this message is circulating in social media but that’s not true. It does not weaken the immune system, rather strengthens it.
2 .Vaccinations cause the diseases that they are meant to prevent. After taking the vaccine we may get some fever or headaches but it’s not the disease, it’s only our bodies building the anti-bodies.
3. Vaccines contain toxins. Yes its true, it contains trace amounts of formaldehyde, mercury and aluminium as an adjuvant but in quantities, that is safe for children.
4.The effectiveness of vaccinations has never been proven. The number of cases for every vaccine-preventable disease plummets in the years after a vaccine for that disease is made widely available. For example small pox killed many people but now it’s gone extinct because we all got vaccinated for the same.
5. I know someone who was vaccinated but got the disease. No vaccine is highly effective. In the case of chicken pox vaccine, many children still got it after immunisation but we have carried on using the vaccine and overall its proven effective.
6. You can take off your mask and do away with the social distancing once you get vaccinated. So not true, upto 45 days of the first dose, you are to maintain all precautions as the body is still in the process of building the anti-bodies.
BE STRONG, BE POSITIVE ABOUT THE VACCINE AND TAKE THE JAB
