Busted: 3 dangerous social-media myths about COVID-19 vaccines\r\n

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Some of the people writing or spreading the myths are trying to attract attention or profit off of peddling lies, says Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “Don’t get played by these people,” she said.

Some COVID-19 vaccine myths are outrageously false. Yet they spread like wildfire on social media and can play a role in persuading some people to hold off on getting a shot.

“Don’t get played by these people,” Ferrer said. “Social media has made it possible for ... the myth spreaders themselves to actually make some money by circulating harmful falsehoods.”The vaccines cannot spread the virus. “You are not contagious with these side effects. It’s your body responding to the pumping of your system to be able to produce the antibodies you would need to fight off this infection,” Ferrer said. “These side effects go away on their own, unlike COVID infection itself, which lasts often for a while and can cause very serious illness.

“The petition falsely claimed that an amino acid sequence and protein that forms that spiky crown of the virus that causes COVID is the same as the one in a protein on the surface of placental cells ... and that vaccines, therefore, that target this protein are going to lead the body to attack pregnancies, resulting in miscarriages.“The protein on the virus, and the protein on the placenta, are both spike proteins. But ...

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Spreading myths and lies says LA Times. The self awareness is fucking epic

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