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Rumors, stigmas and conspiracies Why are there so many false theories about the COVID-19 vaccine?

2020-12-05T21:20:37.486Z


Fear and mistrust, two old enemies of science, are putting the health of millions of people at risk. Here the lies and truths of the vaccine.


It is normal to be afraid in a country with 14 million cases of COVID-19 and 274,000 deaths.

But Oriana Pérez, a Venezuelan who resides in New York, is afraid to get the vaccine against COVID-19.

She has read a false post on Instagram that says that it could affect her reproductive system: "It scares me a little because I want to be a mother and I don't want to have something in my body that disables me for that."

With the arrival of the pandemic, conspiracy theories also arrived.

None have an iota of scientific truth, that is to say, proven.

We first heard that the virus was deliberately manufactured in a laboratory, after the symptoms of the disease are aggravated by the new 5G telephone networks.

The most repeated rumors were miracle cures, such as rinsing your mouth with salt water to prevent contagion.

None of these theories have references or studies to support them.

People of Asian origin were also stigmatized and now, it is the turn of the vaccines.

Some say they do not want to be vaccinated because it is too early to have an effective vaccine;

The truth is that it is the first time in history that so many efforts, alliances of different companies and billions of dollars have been added to a single objective.

Others falsely believe that vaccines are microchipped to control the population, despite efforts by platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to remove this type of content.

According to a study by avaaz.org, Hispanics get the worst of it: Facebook is unable to detect more than 70% of the false content circulating in Spanish.

And that makes the ball of falsehoods get bigger and bigger and reach more and more people.

In this week's episode, Julio Vaqueiro and Lourdes Hurtado debunk these theories.

Source: telemundo

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