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COVID-19 Vaccines: Myth Versus Fact - From Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine ^ | Updated August 4,2021 | Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., senior director of infection prevention, and Gabor Kelen, M.D., direc

Posted on 08/06/2021 10:13:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized vaccines for COVID-19, and their distribution has begun, Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., senior director of infection prevention, and Gabor Kelen, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, review some common myths circulating about the vaccine and clear up confusion with reliable facts.

MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine can affect women’s fertility.

FACT: The COVID-19 vaccine will not affect fertility. The truth is that the COVID-19 vaccine encourages the body to create copies of the spike protein found on the coronavirus’s surface. This “teaches” the body’s immune system to fight the virus that has that specific spike protein on it.

Confusion arose when a false report surfaced on social media, saying that the spike protein on this coronavirus was the same as another spike protein called syncitin-1 that is involved in the growth and attachment of the placenta during pregnancy. The false report said that getting the COVID-19 vaccine would cause a woman’s body to fight this different spike protein and affect her fertility. The two spike proteins are completely different and distinct, and getting the COVID-19 vaccine will not affect the fertility of women who are seeking to become pregnant, including through in vitro fertilization methods. During the Pfizer vaccine tests, 23 women volunteers involved in the study became pregnant, and the only one who suffered a pregnancy loss had not received the actual vaccine, but a placebo.

Getting COVID-19, on the other hand, can have potentially serious impact on pregnancy and the mother’s health. Learn more about coronavirus and pregnancy. Johns Hopkins Medicine encourages women to reach out to their medical providers to discuss other questions they have about COVID-19 as it relates to fertility or pregnancy.

MYTH: If I’ve already had COVID-19, I don’t need a vaccine.

FACT: People who have gotten sick with COVID-19 may still benefit from getting vaccinated. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible, people may be advised to get a COVID-19 vaccine even if they have been sick with COVID-19 before.

There is not enough information currently available to say if or for how long people are protected from getting COVID-19 after they have had it (natural immunity). Early evidence suggests natural immunity from COVID-19 may not last very long, but more studies are needed to better understand this. Several subjects in the Pfizer trial who were previously infected got vaccinated without ill effects. Some scientists believe the vaccine offers better protection for coronavirus than natural infection.

MYTH: Researchers rushed the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, so its effectiveness and safety cannot be trusted.

FACT: Studies found that the two initial vaccines are both about 95% effective — and reported no serious or life-threatening side effects. There are many reasons why the COVID-19 vaccines could be developed so quickly. Here are just a few:

MYTH: Getting the COVID-19 vaccine means I can stop wearing my mask and taking coronavirus precautions.

FACT: The CDC continues to monitor the spread of COVID-19 and makes recommendations for wearing face masks, both for those who are fully vaccinated as well as those who are not fully vaccinated.

The CDC also recommends that masks and physical distancing are required when going to the doctor’s office, hospitals or long-term care facilities, including all Johns Hopkins hospitals, care centers and offices.

Johns Hopkins Medicine’s current mask safety guidelines have not changed, and we still require all individuals to wear masks inside all of our facilities.

MYTH: Getting the COVID-19 vaccine gives you COVID-19.

FACT: The vaccine for COVID-19 cannot and will not give you COVID-19. The two authorized mRNA vaccines instruct your cells to reproduce a protein that is part of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which helps your body recognize and fight the virus, if it comes along. The COVID-19 vaccine does not contain the SARS-Co-2 virus, so you cannot get COVID-19 from the vaccine. The protein that helps your immune system recognize and fight the virus does not cause infection of any sort.

MYTH: The side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are dangerous.

FACT: In April 2021, the CDC temporarily paused and then resumed use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Read full story.

The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines can have side effects, but the vast majority are very short term —not serious or dangerous. The vaccine developers report that some people experience pain where they were injected; body aches; headaches or fever, lasting for a day or two. These are signs that the vaccine is working to stimulate your immune system. If symptoms persist beyond two days, you should call your doctor.

If you have allergies — especially severe ones that require you to carry an EpiPen — discuss the COVID-19 vaccine with your doctor, who can assess your risk and provide more information about if and how you can get vaccinated safely.

MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine enters your cells and changes your DNA.

FACT: The COVID-19 vaccines are designed to help your body’s immune system fight the coronavirus. The messenger RNA from two of the first types of COVID-19 vaccines does enter cells, but not the nucleus of the cells where DNA resides. The mRNA does its job to cause the cell to make protein to stimulate the immune system, and then it quickly breaks down — without affecting your DNA.

MYTH: The messenger RNA technology used to make the COVID-19 vaccine is brand new.

FACT: The mRNA technology behind the new coronavirus vaccines has been in development for almost two decades. Vaccine makers created the technology to help them respond quickly to a new pandemic illness, such as COVID-19.

MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine was developed with or contains controversial substances.

FACT: The first two COVID-19 vaccines to be authorized by the FDA contain mRNA and other, normal vaccine ingredients, such as fats (which protect the mRNA), salts, as well as a small amount of sugar. These COVID-19 vaccines were not developed using fetal tissue, and they do not contain any material, such as implants, microchips or tracking devices.

MYTH: Now that we have a vaccine for COVID-19, we can make vaccines for the common cold, HIV and other diseases.

FACT: The thousands of viruses that cause various diseases are very different. Many change (mutate) year by year, making it difficult to develop one vaccine that works for a long period of time.

Developing vaccines for some disease-causing viruses is tough. For example, the virus that causes HIV can hide and make itself undetectable by the human immune system, which makes creating a vaccine for it extremely difficult.

The common cold can be caused by any one of hundreds of different viruses, so a vaccine for just one of them would not be very effective.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; myths; vaccines
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To: Baldwin
Appreciate you pointing out the malicious fallacy:
EARLY evidence says natural immunity may not last that long.
That's a #ing idiotic statement. Definitively, natural immunity is always effective

This JH release is total BS.

FU, JH

21 posted on 08/07/2021 1:15:32 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: alexander_busek

The assertions are reckless.


22 posted on 08/07/2021 1:18:48 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

that has been in development for years,

And never approved.

You don’t screw around with genes, people.


23 posted on 08/07/2021 3:14:33 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The CDC website says clinical trials will end July 30th 2023. How long after that, will they deliver the report on the trials?


24 posted on 08/07/2021 3:47:51 AM PDT by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Swine Flu Fraud of 1976 (60 Minutes with Mike Wallace)

The Swine Flu vax campaign was stopped after less than 100-500 deaths, the number depends on which side you believe. In those days, the media were not the propaganda arm of the Deep State / Big Pharma axis. Now the MSM helps to cover up more than 10K Covid vax deaths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydx_ok6gyiY&ab_channel=DetoxLife


25 posted on 08/07/2021 4:03:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

“China isolated and shared genetic information about COVID-19 promptly, so scientists could start working on vaccines.”

THIS is where you should stop reading!


26 posted on 08/07/2021 4:35:19 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: P-Marlowe

Exactly....


27 posted on 08/07/2021 4:40:18 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

When it said masks work I stopped reading...They may work in a hospital setting but not in public..


28 posted on 08/07/2021 6:27:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Jeff Chandler

The medical industry has beclowned itself.
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Big Pharma is no better than the corner drug dealer. Worse. They put their suit and ties on, ( disguise), spend millions on TV and other advertisements, then have to put four pages of side effects on their products. The Covid flu vaccines have over 500,000 reported side effects/ 12,000 deaths ( Vaers reports) and I have yet to see their warning list of side effects. Now, they are covering for their failed vaccines, stating the debilitating effects are somehow worth it ( risk/ reward), sorry, not buying into any of it.


29 posted on 08/07/2021 7:53:46 AM PDT by delta7
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To: SeekAndFind

Outdated propaganda:

“FACT: People who have gotten sick with COVID-19 may still benefit from getting vaccinated. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible, people may be advised to get a COVID-19 vaccine even if they have been sick with COVID-19 before.

There is not enough information currently available to say if or for how long people are protected from getting COVID-19 after they have had it (natural immunity). Early evidence suggests natural immunity from COVID-19 may not last very long, but more studies are needed to better understand this. Several subjects in the Pfizer trial who were previously infected got vaccinated without ill effects. Some scientists believe the vaccine offers better protection for coronavirus than natural infection.”
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Natural immunity is long lasting and robust, published in Nature. This claim is hedged and parsed, but is still at the very least misleading propaganda.


30 posted on 08/07/2021 8:04:20 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

“FACT: Studies found that the two initial vaccines are both about 95% effective — and reported no serious or life-threatening side effects. “

False propaganda- there are many adverse side effects, including death. And the reported most common variation of sars cov2 infects and causes disease equally among the mRNA vaccinated and the vaccinated. See the cape cod outbreak or Israel for data.


31 posted on 08/07/2021 8:08:41 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

FACT: The mRNA technology behind the new coronavirus vaccines has been in development for almost two decades. Vaccine makers created the technology to help them respond quickly to a new pandemic illness, such as COVID-19.

Propaganda-
There is no previously approved ‘vaccine’ that uses this technology. (And this one is not fully approved either.) This mRNA technology is in alpha testing still.


32 posted on 08/07/2021 8:12:22 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

FACT: The COVID-19 vaccines are designed to help your body’s immune system fight the coronavirus. The messenger RNA from two of the first types of COVID-19 vaccines does enter cells, but not the nucleus of the cells where DNA resides. The mRNA does its job to cause the cell to make protein to stimulate the immune system, and then it quickly breaks down — without affecting your DNA.

Propaganda:

So they admit the JnJ approach (adenovirus vector gene therapy) does change you DNA through addition of synthetic viral DNA.

For the mRNA approach, consider that you have human genes that produce human proteins, and you add a viral gene that makes a viral protein. Have you changed your genetic composition? Of course you have.


33 posted on 08/07/2021 8:16:43 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

FACT: The first two COVID-19 vaccines to be authorized by the FDA contain mRNA and other, normal vaccine ingredients, such as fats (which protect the mRNA), salts, as well as a small amount of sugar. These COVID-19 vaccines were not developed using fetal tissue, and they do not contain any material, such as implants, microchips or tracking devices.

Propaganda:

The lipid nanotechnology that protects the synthetic viral mRNA is new technology. It is effectively a pass key through all cell membranes and barriers.

There are reports of graphene in the injections.

The nucleosides in the mRNA injection are modified reportedly to improve stability, but the modifications are unreported as trade secrets.


34 posted on 08/07/2021 8:20:44 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

Once somebody tells you that you should still be vaccinated post infection, you can stop listening. This is absurd on its face.

Contrary to apparently new popular belief, vaccines are not a magic elixir. They only provide a “teaching moment” for the immune system. Whether vaccinated or not, it is your immune system that does the work.

All we need to do is ask ourself one simple question. What could the immune system learn, from a vaccine, that it did not already learn when dealing with the real virus? The answer, is quite literally, nothing.


35 posted on 08/07/2021 8:53:57 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: joshua c

Recent news is FDA Approval for the Pfizer Vaccine will come around Sept. 1st.

Just curious, what object will you use after that?

The FDA is Deep State?

The FDA Admins were paid off?

Bill Gates controls the FDA?

Seems to me if the FDA gave approval in Dec. of 2020, it wouldn’t matter as something else would be used as an objection.


36 posted on 08/07/2021 8:59:48 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: SeekAndFind

Now that we have a vaccine for COVID-19, we can make vaccines for the common cold, HIV and other diseases.
= = =

And we will start (and already have) on a vaccine for patriotic, conservative, diseased thinkers.


37 posted on 08/07/2021 3:11:09 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: David Chase

So DC,

Do you buy all the spin and propaganda above as fact - even after I pointed out the the spin and omissions?

TIA


38 posted on 08/08/2021 7:13:28 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

39 posted on 08/08/2021 7:14:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“There is no graphene oxide in the Covid-19 vaccines - Full ...

https://fullfact.org/health/graphene-oxide-covid-vaccines
Aug 04, 2021 · They are used in medicine, and a particular type called a lipid nanoparticle is used in both the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines (which have been approved for use in the UK). Graphene oxide is another type of nanoparticle but as we have written previously, the Covid-19 vaccines currently in use do not contain graphene oxide. The MHRA told Full Fact “there is no graphene oxide in any of the...”

OK, so are our guys lying when they say it’s in there, or are their guys lying when they say it’s not?


40 posted on 08/08/2021 8:56:41 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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