We have not seen anything that would make us believe that the risks outweigh the benefits.
We are now over six months into our experience with these vaccines. When you look at the history of vaccines, if patients were to develop side effects, these occurred within two months.
The main difference between emergency use versus full FDA approval is that you need two months of monitoring rather than six months. I think there is a perception that things moved very fast, but we want to underscore that the technology being used now was being studied for a decade. To provide extra context, we include one more fact.Īssoumou: This is the most common question I get asked. If these two experts encountered someone on the street who cited one of these myths as their reason not to get vaccinated, this is what they would say to them. The Brink took some of the most widespread myths to two leading infectious disease experts, Davidson Hamer, a faculty member of BU’s School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, and Sabrina Assoumou, a BU School of Medicine assistant professor of medicine and of infectious diseases and a Boston Medical Center physician. And none of them are true.īut no matter how convincing and irrefutable the science and the data about the COVID-19 vaccines are, misinformation spreads so easily and quickly-largely through social media networks-that it has become a major barrier stopping the United States from reaching higher levels of vaccination (190 million people, or 57 percent of Americans, have received at least one shot) that would bring us closer to herd immunity. The vaccine will make women sterile the vaccines are too new the shots have a microchip in them the vaccine itself will give me COVID I’m immune because I had COVID breakthrough cases prove vaccines are useless. Myth : pronounced mith noun definition: a widely held but false belief or idea synonyms: misconception, fallacy, fantasy, fiction.Īmong the many reasons COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States peaked earlier than experts hoped-then, rather than crescendoing into the summer months, began trending downward-are myths that took hold among the unvaccinated and solidified as their reasons not to get the shots.
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