With millions of doses being distributed around the planet, if even a small percentage are given incorrectly, Pitts says the numbers will add up quickly. Videos of people sticking magnets to their arms where they claim they’ve had the Covid vaccine have gone viral. “I’m so excited we have it, and I would just really hate to see not only people not get vaccinated, but to also give them the false sense of security that they were vaccinated, that’s almost worse, right?” Pitts said. So he’s been sounding the alarm on social media in physicians’ chat groups, circulating diagrams which show the correct methods of injecting an intramuscular vaccine, and reminding health care professionals with a simple hashtag, #DoNotSqueezeMyArm. “The hard part was getting the vaccine, the hard part shouldn’t be injecting it into the muscle,” Dr. If that happens, Pitts says the vaccine will not be effective. We debunk this so-called magnet challenge. That could lead, he says, to the vaccine being injected into the subcutaneous fat, the fat layer under the skin, instead of into the muscle where it needs to go. Videos of people sticking magnets to their arms where they claim theyve had the Covid vaccine have gone viral. In one video posted across social media platforms, a woman claims to show a magnet sticking to her arm a result, she alleges, of a recent vaccination. We’ve all seen the video and pictures over the past three weeks of people receiving the pandemic-altering vaccines into their upper arms, and that’s where the COVID-19 vaccine goes, straight.
Get the NBC 6 South Florida app for iOS or Android and pick your alerts. Pressing the round magnet to her deltoid. Stay informed about local news and weather during the hurricane season. Standing in front of her camera, she explained to users that she just received her COVID-19 vaccine and wanted to see if a magnet would stick to her arm. In Australia, an elderly woman received the flu vaccine. Magnets can also be found in some home power tools as well. Around the home, large magnets are in items such as microwave ovens, some speakers and some electronic devices.
25-year-old Rob Marrocco first posted his. After receiving the flu vaccination, it is recommended that the person stay away from magnets for three weeks.
For the record, scientists have debunked the magnetic microchip. The claim the COVID-19 vaccines can cause magnetic reactions is also unfounded, said virologist Angela. Yes, there is a challenge going around showing people putting magnets on their arms to prove that the vaccine makes you magnetic.
Tom Pitts, a neurologist who practices in New York City, says as he’s watched the images, he has noticed too many instances in which the skin is being pinched as the needle is inserted. As people online flock to show that magnets stick to their post-vaccine arms, one man has apologized after proving himself wrong in a follow-up video. Fact check: No evidence that a 2-year-old died after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. We’ve all seen the video and pictures over the past three weeks of people receiving the pandemic-altering vaccines into their upper arms, and that’s where the COVID-19 vaccine goes, straight into the deltoid muscle.īut Dr.