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There s a lot of false information around about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: Is the vaccine being introduced in Africa as a means of population control? The vaccine is not being introduced in Africa, especially not to control the population, said Dr. Josh Lesko, Brief19 lead policy analyst. There is a history of using various experiments and trials in communities of color, which include, unfortunately, times in which sterilization and what some have deemed efforts of genocide have occurred throughout history as relates to medicine. And so that s where this notion comes from. What we have to promote and educate is that we ve come a long way from that. We have regulatory and legal aspects in place to prevent repeating of history, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, pulmonary care specialist with Northwestern Medicine.
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There’s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the US. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: Does the vaccine give me COVID-19?
“The vaccine does not give you COVID. The front runners use mRNA from COVID, which is a part of the basic building blocks of the virus, said Dr. Josh Lesko, Brief19 Lead Policy Analyst.
“It allows for a small amount of genetic material called messenger RNA to be transported to our cells. And then our cell is able to use that information in that piece of genetic material to make a very specific protein that is usually found on the outside part of the virus that causes COVID-19. Once the body is able to create those proteins, then it can then use its immune system to then create a protective response, explained Dr. Jasmine R. Marcelin an Infectious Diseases Physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. �
December 18, 2020
Pfizer s vaccine and Moderna s candidate both require two shots, but that won t necessarily be the case for all COVID-19 vaccines.
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There’s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: How many shots of the vaccine will I need?
“Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will require two separate vaccine injections. For the Pfizer vaccine, the second injection is three weeks after the first, and for the Moderna vaccine, the second injection is given four weeks after the first, said Dr. Jasmine R. Marcelin, an infectious diseases physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.