(Reuters) - There is no evidence to support a claim that Covid-19 vaccinations were a ploy to inject people with an infectious disease that will lead to a new pandemic.
In an Instagram video that received over 1,300 likes at the time of writing, a man says, “You know how these evil turds are telling you there’s gonna be another pandemic. This next one’s gonna be even more deadlier than the past one. You know how they know that right? It’s because they injected you with it.” (here)
He goes on to say, “We know nothing about the science about the stuff they injected into you, and there’s a reason for that.” Information about how Covid-19 vaccines work and what they contain is publicly available, however, including vaccine ingredients and records of safety testing performed before and after regulatory approval.
For example, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website explains how the most commonly used Covid-19 vaccines in the United States employ “mRNA created in a laboratory to teach our cells how to make a protein - or even just a piece of a protein - that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. The mRNA from the vaccines is broken down within a few days after the vaccination and discarded from the body.” (here).
The CDC page also lists ingredients in the adult and child formulations of all the Covid-19 vaccines approved in the US (viewable in drop-down by selecting the vaccine name). None of the vaccines includes pathogens that could be the basis of a “next pandemic”.
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesperson also pointed to fact sheets about the Covid-19 vaccines on the agency’s website, which list the ingredients in Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine (here) and Moderna’s vaccine (here).
Fact sheets for the Janssen (J&J) and Novavax Covid-19 vaccine are available (here ) (here ).
Ingredients described in the fact sheets for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines include mRNA, lipids, sucrose and tromethamine, a chemical (here) (page 3), (here) (page 34).
The FDA site also provides documentation of the regulatory history of each vaccine, detailing the toxicology testing and scrutiny of the vaccines before and after approval, as well as advisory committee meetings where such information was presented and discussed (here).
There is no evidence of the Covid-19 vaccines containing any substance that could cause an infectious disease pandemic.
VERDICT
No evidence. There is no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines are a ploy to inject people “with the next pandemic” and no support for the statement that nothing is known about what is in the vaccines. All vaccine ingredients, pharmacology and toxicology for Covid-19 vaccines approved in the United States are published online.