Was there ever a time where you were hesitant on getting the COVID-19 vaccine?
Was there ever a time when you let
the news and gossip get to you about the COVID-19 vaccine?
This, in other words, is called vaccine hesitancy.
This will be the topic of today's video.
In this video we will be talking about
science mistrust or hesitancy particularly regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
We will discuss vaccine hesitancy and where it stems from.
We will introduce a study that displays signs mistrust.
We will explain the falls of this study and then end with a conclusion.
The contents of this video are in no way
persuading or obtaining individuals from obtaining the COVID-19 vaccine.
Please seek the advice of a medical professional if assistance is required
for decision making regarding the Covid 19 vaccine,
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hesitancy is the process of delaying or refusing vaccine administration.
Although the vaccine is available
vaccine, hesitancy may arise due to numerous factors such as a lack
of trust in the government and pharmaceutical companies
underestimating the severity of the disease.
A fear of needles, a lack of time or misinformation due
to the media, which will be the topic of today's video.
A main fear comes from what might happen
to the body if the vaccine is administered.
Many individuals become misinformed about
vaccines due to the spreading of false scientific information.
Social media has allowed for the rapid spread of misinformation,
particularly when individuals forward messages they see on social media.
Spread assumptions by word of mouth or misinterpret scientific information.
Essentially, there's a game of broken
telephone where medical misinformation is spread from one person to the next.
Speaking of medical misinformation,
have you heard of the claim that vaccines are being administered incorrectly
and that as a result there's a risk of acute myel pericarditis.
A study that fueled its claim was
published in August 2021 and is called intravenous injection of Covit 19 mRNA
vaccine can induce acute myoparecarditis in mouse model.
For context, myopycarditis is the inflammation
of the pericardium, which is a two layered sac that covers the outside of the heart.
The study's main purpose was to investigate whether accidental
intravenous injection of the Covit 19 mRNA vaccine can induce acute myophericarditis.
In the methods of this study,
there is a control group and two experimental groups.
The control group consisted of mice
that received a saline injection which created no effect.
The two experimental groups consisted of mice that received one of two routes
of administration, either an intravenous injection or the intramuscular injection.
In simpler terms, this means that the injection was either
administered within a vein or deep into the muscle.
The researchers measured signs of myoparicarditis in each group to see if
there is an effect due to intravenous injection.
The results of the study showed that rats
who were injected intravenously showed more signs of myopycarditis.
The study concludes that myoperncarditis
following mRNA injection could be due to the incorrect administration
of the vaccine, particularly the intravenous group.
This study fueled a great deal of vaccine hesitancy among laypeople, however,
we cannot make broad claims about what should be done based on one study alone.
As we will see, experts had many concerns about the study.
One major concern was outlined by Elizabeth Dick,
who is a science integrity expert known for identifying photo manipulation.
According to Bick, there were unexpected
similarities between the photos for different treatment groups.
Remember that the study involved three different experimental groups,
a control group, an intravenous group, and an intramuscular group.
In the figures posted by the researchers,
these two images presented are shown to represent different groups.
This image represents the intravenous
group and this image represents the intramuscular group.
However, if you take a closer look, these images appear to be from the same mouth.
If you rotate the image, the image from the intramuscular group is
the same as the one used for the intravenous group,
although they are supposed to be from two different mice.
Because of this,
there are concerns on whether the samples have been switched, which raises concerns
about whether there were errors in other samples as well.
Another concern raised by Dick and others
included the usage of bald CJ mice in the study.
The study demonstrated that some other mice had pericardial fibrosis as quickly
as one or two days after being given the vaccination, which seems incredibly fast.
Usually it takes around five days to see this extent of fibrosis.
It is common to find pericardial fibrosis
involved CJ mice, which could mean that the pericardial
fibrosis that the researchers found could be a background finding.
This means that the mice may have already
had pericarditis before being administered the vaccination.
What this means is that the experiment needs to be conducted again on a different
strain of mice to show that the pericardial fibrosis found
by the researchers is not just a background finding.
There was also a concern about the doses
of the vaccine that the mice received, where BIC argued that the rats received
a vaccination dose from 50 to 500 times the dose that a normal human would receive
too much of anything can lead to harmful effect.
For example, water is healthy in moderation,
but if you drink 50 to 500 times more, it could even kill you.
Overall, there were many concerns presented by fellow experts that would
need to be addressed before we can view the results of this one study as accurate.
Outside of the flaws that may be present
in a study, there are also issues with generalizing the results of a study.
Many experimental observations are very specific to what they are investigating,
so it may be difficult to generalize the results from this study to humans.
Let's explore the issues we can face when generalizing this study to humans.
One issue around the generalization of the study to humans is that in humans,
intravenous injections are incredibly rare.
One advantage to the site
of administration in humans, the deltoid is that the deltoid has very
few veins where accidental injections could occur, making them very rare.
Furthermore, the onset of pericarditis
in humans has been found after two doses of the mRNA vaccine.
The study examines the administration
of two consecutive intravenous doses, which means that if accidental
administration was the cause of myoparecarditis in humans,
it would have to occur after two consecutive incorrectly administered
vaccines, of which the chances are very small.
In contrast to the study presented in this
video, a research study was done in Israel, where researchers observed
the effects of the phizor mRNA vaccine in patients 42 days after the second dose.
In doing so, they realized that the onset of Mytal pericarditis depends on various
factors such as age, demographics, and differs in severity.
In addition, these researchers found that the majority of myophericartitis
cases were in individuals with preexisting heart problems,
therefore causing researchers to conclude that colit 19 is more likely to cause
myoprenicarditis on its own than the vaccine itself.
Overall, it is important to note that we
should not jump to conclusions based on one study.
This is because there can be many flaws within that one study.
It is difficult to generalize the results of one study to a greater population,
and there's often miscommunication about science, which is like a game of broken
telephone, where information gets transferred from one person to another
very quickly and gets distorted along the way.
It is very important for us as the public
to understand how we obtain scientific information that is accurate.
For example, we should consult reputable
Journal articles with many peer reviews as that indicates that the study has been
validated and accepted by experts in this field.
In addition, we should ask experts such as
our doctors, nurses, and scientists before making any decision about our health.