A new strange and unfounded conspiracy theory, regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, presents a side effect, according to which the area where the vaccine was injected or the whole body, turns into magnetic.
The bizarre myth has recently been spread by people on social media, who show magnetic objects sticking to their arm.
You may have wondered how doctors react to this.
"It's ridiculous, " says Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center.
"I mean, how can such a thing be believed?" This is not true. I'm not sure what the genesis of this particular myth is. "But I would like to think that no one has chosen not to get a vaccine because they are afraid it will be magnetic."
Misinformation about the vaccine has the potential to be dangerous if it discourages people.
None of the ingredients in any of the COVID-19 vaccines produce electromagnetic force at the injection site or elsewhere in your body. There is nothing metallic or magnetic about vaccines.
The agency also notes that the typical dose dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is less than one milliliter, which is not enough to allow magnets to be pulled to the vaccination site.
Experts also point out that vaccines are obviously too small to hold and a microchip as well.
"The microchips are too big to be inserted into the end of a needle, so I can't figure it out," says Dr. Offit.
Beyond the lack of magnetic materials in the vaccines themselves, there is the fact that your body does not attract magnetic objects.
"Although blood contains little iron, it is not magnetizable iron," explains Dr. Offit. The iron in your blood is not ferromagnetic (sensitive to magnetism), which means that it is not able to create or interact in a field of electromagnetic force.
