The Top COVID-19 Vaccine Myths Spreading Online
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By HealthGuard Last Updated: Sep 15, 2021
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MYTH: A new law in Colorado will force parents into a government-run re-education program if they refuse to give their children a COVID-19 vaccine.
THE FACTS: The School Entry Immunization Bill, signed into law by Colorado’s governor in June 2020, does not make any reference to COVID-19 or a COVID-19 vaccine. The law did toughen the state’s process for obtaining a religious or personal belief vaccine exemption, requiring parents requesting such an exemption to either submit a form signed by a health care provider, or complete what the law calls an “online education module” about vaccine science, produced by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
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MYTH: Secret documents reveal that Moderna had developed a COVID-19 vaccine in December 2019, proving that the pandemic was planned.
THE FACTS: This myth was based on misrepresenting a real December 2019 research transfer agreement between Moderna, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the University of North Carolina.
The document does mention that UNC will receive research material on “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna.” Six signatures on the document are dated between Dec. 12, 2019, and Dec. 17, 2019, prior to the Dec. 31, 2019, report from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in China on a cluster of pneumonia cases that was the first public message about what would later be called COVID-19.
However, in a June 2021 statement to Agence France-Presse, LeadStories.com, and PolitiFact, a NIAID spokesperson said the agreement was related to a different strain of coronavirus, not the virus that causes COVID-19. “The materials transferred to UNC in December 2019 were vaccine candidates against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and not SARS-CoV-2,” the spokesperson said.
Contradicting the claim that this research transfer agreement was “secret,” both Axios and Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, had published articles about the document in June 2020.
MYTH: COVID-19 vaccines contain luciferase, a substance named after the fallen angel Lucifer.
THE FACTS: Luciferase is an enzyme responsible for bioluminescence in some organisms, such as fireflies, and has been used in medical research for decades because of its ability to help scientists visually track changes to cells, according to a December 2019 article in Smithsonian Magazine.
The Associated Press reported in an April 2021 article that while the enzyme has been used in some COVID-19 research, lucerifase is not an ingredient in any COVID-19 vaccine; it is not listed in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ingredient lists for the three COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the U.S. as of July 2021. The AP also reported that the only connection between luciferase and Lucifer — a figure in the Bible that Christians believe was a fallen angel who became Satan — is the Latin word lucifer, meaning light-bearing.
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MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will turn people into monkeys.
THE FACTS: This false claim is based on the fact that Oxford and AstraZeneca’s vaccine relies on a modified chimpanzee adenovirus intended to generate an immune response to the virus that causes COVID-19. According to The Times of London, the claim is being promoted through memes and video clips as part of a disinformation campaign involving officials in Russian state agencies, specifically targeted at countries where Russia wants to sell its own COVID-19 vaccine.
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MYTH: More people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19 vaccines than from the virus itself.
THE FACTS: Johns Hopkins University reported that there have been 611,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. as of July 28, 2021. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states on its website that all deaths that are known to have occurred following a COVID-19 vaccination are investigated, and that as of July 26, 2021, no deaths have been found to have been caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
“A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines,” the CDC said. “However, recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and TTS, a rare and serious adverse event—blood clots with low platelets—which has caused deaths.”
While the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System has, as of July 26, 2021, received 6,340 reports of death among people who have received COVID-19 vaccines, reports to VAERS can be made by anyone and do not establish a cause-and-effect relationship with any vaccine. In fact, VAERS reports will include deaths that lack any plausible link to a vaccine, such as a person dying in a car accident on their way home from being vaccinated.
MYTH: The CDC changed its testing parameters for PCR tests in vaccinated people so that authorities would record fewer breakthrough cases of COVID-19.
THE FACTS: Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing is considered the “gold standard” for COVID-19 testing and involves collecting a fluid sample from a patient and analyzing that sample for the presence of coronavirus RNA. If found, the RNA is isolated and duplicated in cycles until traces of the COVID-19 virus become more easily detectable. The number of cycles required to detect the virus in a sample varies and is known as the “cycle threshold,” with a low threshold implying a higher concentration of the COVID-19 virus and a strong positive result and a high threshold implying a lower concentration and a weaker result.
The myth that the CDC shifted its testing parameters to skew data about breakthrough cases — defined by the agency as COVID-19 detected two weeks or more after a person has received all recommended doses of an approved vaccine — emerged after the CDC announced that it was changing the way that it monitored and reported breakthrough infections to focus on the most serious cases.
The new guidance, which PolitiFact reported was first announced on May 14, 2021, stated that “because CDC would like to characterize the SARS-CoV-2 lineages responsible for COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases, including variants,” only lab samples with cycle thresholds of 28 or lower should be submitted to the CDC for further testing known as genetic sequencing.
Genetic sequencing is a technique used by scientists to better understand the genetic makeup of the COVID-19 virus, including any variants. The CDC specified a cycle threshold of 28 for genetic sequencing because a stronger positive test will facilitate that process.
The CDC’s guidance does not mean that it has changed its parameters for what counts as a positive COVID-19 PCR test. CDC spokeswoman Jade Fulce told PolitiFact in a May 2021 interview that the cycle threshold of 28 “is not used to define whether a specimen is positive or negative for COVID. It is only used for determining whether a specimen that tests positive could be submitted for SARS-CoV-2 sequencing. It is not specific to vaccine breakthrough cases.”
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