Last Updated on November 14, 2021 by Team THIP
Quick Take
A theory has been discussed in social media claiming that m-RNA based Covid-19 vaccines will cause a ‘cytokine storm’ in vaccinated individuals in few months resulting in death. We fact-checked and found that the claim is false.
The Claim
The same claim has been shared quoting multiple quotes.
In one of the instance the claim was circulated in the name of Professor Dolores Cahill. It claimed, “after a few months the antibodies in our body can attack our organs.” An archived version of the post can be seen here and tweet is embedded below.
Another similar claim was distributed in name of Ande Peters, an ex-NHS scientist. Similar in nature, the post claims, vaccines “are clearly a Trojan horse designed to be activated by a later variant that contains a specific genetic marker that will trigger the inevitable and deadly auto immune response.”
The post can be seen here.
Fact Check
What does ‘cytokine storm’ mean?
Cytokine storm broadly denotes a condition where the immune system becomes hyperactive and releases interferons, interleukins, tumor-necrosis factors, chemokines, and several other mediators that becomes harmful to the host cells. There have been some researches in past where mice that have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines and overactive immune response had been recorded.
Can Covid vaccines trigger a trozan horse immune response that gets activated later?
No. The earlier research done on mRNA vaccines was in 2012 and vaccine technology has made a lot of improvements post that.
Health Desk by Meedan, a repository of explainers by scientists and medical professionals, states there was no evidence to suggest that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines or non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines would result in cytokine storms.
Moreover, Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has clearly stated that mRNA vaccines do not use a live virus that causes COVID-19 and that mRNA never enters the nucleus of the cell where the genetic matter or DNA is kept.
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