University of Kentucky’s Vince Venditto, PhD, is busting myths about vaccines to help inform your decision to get vaccinated.
I would personally get any of the approved vaccines, absolutely. I will also wait for my turn to ensure that those at highest risk can get vaccinated first. . .” – Vince Venditto, PhD, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Science
Source: University of Kentucky News, January 14, 2021. Link. Covid vaccine myths Venditto addresses:
- Fiction – The vaccine has been rushed, so it cannot be safe.
- Fiction – There has not been enough testing.
- Fact – There is an advantage to having multiple vaccines, not just one that works.
- Fiction – We do not know what is in the vaccine.
- Fiction – We do not know anything about the side effects.
- Fiction – COVID-19 will eventually go away on its own.
- Fact – Receiving an mRNA vaccine will not affect your DNA/genetics.
- Fiction – The vaccines are just placebos.
- Fiction – There is a chip or marker in the vaccine used to track you.