This vaccinated man is taking unnecessary precautions
Vaccinated people do not shed spike proteins. They don’t give women miscarriages. They don’t have to keep away from pregnant women. Or wear gas masks in their presence.
That’s a crock, but some people believe it anyway. Or maybe they don’t know what to believe, and don’t want to take any chances with something they don’t understand.
“Persistent myths like vaccine shedding are becoming more extreme on social media,” NBC News says. “Among the reasons misinformation is spreading so rapidly is that its believers use unverifiable firsthand accounts … shared on under-moderated social media … [that are] nearly impossible to fact-check.”
“Doctors have been repeating for months that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women, women who are breastfeeding and women who would like to have babies … medical professionals and public health officials have repeatedly debunked the idea that Covid-19 vaccines cause ‘shedding’ or that such a thing could negatively affect the fertility or menstrual cycle of a nonvaccinated person,” NBC News said.
“There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including Covid-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems — problems trying to get pregnant,” the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says on its page about vaccine safety for women’s reproductive health.
The virus sheds. That’s probably how this stupid conspiracy theory got started. But the vaccine doesn’t; as a Washington D.C. doctor said, “There’s no biological mechanism by which a vaccine would shed.”
But some people will believe anything, simply because they heard about it on the internet.
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