{UAH} COVID VACCINE IS SAFE TO TAKE!

COVID VACCINE IS SAFE TO TAKE!

By Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba.

Friends,

There is a buzz in the UK about the approval of the first vaccine to be rolled out 🥳I haven't taken the vaccine yet, but I think I will after teaching myself a lot about it. In summary, I think its safe to take and we should not be afraid of it. MRNA cannot alter your DNA but smoking, sunbathing, or stressing about vaccines certainly can.

To my understanding, vaccines mainly take so long to develop due to lack of funding and due to monitoring of long-term side effects. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) won't have approved it if it hadn't passed the safety checks. Long term effects from vaccines are astronomically low. Any side effects usually consist of pain at injection site and mild fever in the very short term. Also, mRNA is depleted soon after it's used by the cell.

10-15% of Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines had mild side effects including pain at injection site, mild fever, or fatigue. These are common responses to a vaccine as your immune system is challenged. These vaccines contain no infectious elements as they are based on mRNA and not a virus

Your immune system just needs to be presented with the antigen. The antigen of COVID-19 is the spike protein. The mRNA contains the instructions for building the protein. Very clever stuff.

Any vaccine will only be given to people who are deemed to have a strong enough immune system. There will be a portion that won't be able to receive it. Therefore, it's so important that we achieve herd immunity.

Some standard vaccines (live attenuated) are a no go for a lot of people. This mRNA vaccine will be needed to be studied further with those immune compromised and those with diseases/cancers that require immunosuppressive drugs. Some elderly (esp over 80s) current annual flu jab don't work effectively due to their weak immune systems. The anti vax lot need to know the risk they pose to a lot of vulnerable people.

Lastly, mRNA vaccine will not make you infertile. It is based on producing the spike protein of the actual COVID-19 virus. You may have noticed that COVID-19 itself doesn't appear to make you infertile.

Suggesting syncytin-1 has significant sequence homology to the spike protein that may confer cross reactivity is more desperate bollocks. The spike protein is 1273 amino acids long and has a region of about 5 amino acids that align to syncytin-1. You will likely find this for any other protein (eg. hemoglobin, collagen). If this insignificant amount of homology caused cross reactivity, we would have much bigger problems than infertility. People would literally die immediately after birth.

Overall, long term mRNA vaccines should be safer as they contain no actual live/inactive virus sample. I think this is more that it can be manufactured more quickly as it doesn't require cell culture. The global response has sped up this technology which is amazing in itself. Any vaccines that pass through regulation are safe.

For those in Uganda where the virus has picked up speed, please stay away from crowded spaces, especially political rallies, use masks, keep social distancing, avoid unnecessary visits and burials, e.t.c. I do not think the government has money to order vaccines at the moment, but I'm sure the great nations will soon roll out a free vaccine program for poor countries, God willing.

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