On February 4, 2021, Facebook user Kakha Kakhadze published a video depicting a young man lying on a hospital bed and tremoring with several doctors caring for him. It’s impossible to identify a patient, medical personnel, or medical establishment. According to Kakhadze, the video depicts the adverse effects of the coronavirus vaccine, whereas the vaccine itself changes DNA that causes the disfunction of the immunity system and a person loses control over his/her own body. The post refers to the Telegram channel’s link as the source of the video.
As of February 10, 2021, Kakha Kakhadze’s post was shared by 510 Facebook users. The post was also shared in the pubic group ანტილიბერალური სივრცე (Anti-liberal Space).
Kakha Kakhadze’s claim alleging that the video depicts a patient vaccinated against coronavirus isn’t backed up by evidence. Via video, it is impossible to identify the aforesaid person and determine whether he indeed received coronavirus vaccine or not. According to CDC, no such adverse effect has appeared after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine nor has it been detected during the clinical trials phase of the vaccine. Information about vaccine changing human DNA is false and has been disseminated even before.
The aforesaid video cannot be found in open sources. As for the link indicated as a source of Kakha Kakhadze’s video, it forwards us to the Telegram channel Anti-Vacinas, whose members are Brazilian anti-vaxxers. Currently, the channel has 2 236 members.
One of the users first published the video with a description “Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccine” on Telegram Correspondence at 00:02, February 4 without additional information or the source.
On February 4, the identical video was redisseminated by anonymous users at different times: account @lumenvita disseminated the video without description at 19:12, whereas Master Class did it at 21:46. Master Class added the following description to the video – “One more victim of the puncture”.
It’s worth mentioning that a few hours later one of the users responded to Master Class’s message and asked the author if s/he had any link to prove that convulsion and tremor were indeed caused by a vaccine. Per Master Class’ response, s/he had no such evidence.
Th claim alleging that the coronavirus vaccine causes strong tremors in people with videos of different patients attached has previously been disseminated on the social network. In anti-vaxxer groups, the most popular were videos of American Shawn Skelton (the woman in pink) and “a mother from Louisiana” Angelia Gipson Desselle. However, information from scientists and healthcare specialists doesn’t confirm that strong tremors are caused by a vaccine. According to U.S Center for Disease Control (CDC), such adverse effects haven’t appeared in the case of coronavirus vaccine or during the clinical trial phases of the vaccine. Described adverse effects of coronavirus vaccine (headache, pain at the site of injection, fever) are temporary. Read detailed information in the article prepared by “Myth Detector”:
Kakha Kakhadze’s claim alleging that the coronavirus vaccine changes human DNA is disinformation as well. Read detailed information on this topic:
- RNA or DNA-Based Vaccine?
- Side effects from Pfizer and Moderna are rare, while RNA technology is safe
- Coronavirus vaccines – myths and reality
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