Is it true that the place of vaccination from the Covid-19 can attract magnets?

The message spreads on social networks: the shoulder where the coronavirus vaccine was introduced is capable of attracting magnets due to the chip or high share of aluminum contained in the vaccine. We decided to check if this is true.

The most popular video in Russian distributed User Tiktok under the nickname Thelegacytv. He uses a magnet in the shape of a machine and applies it to the left or the right shoulder of his son. From the side where the vaccine was introduced, the magnet holds, and on the other, it falls. The father brings the result of his experiment with the phrase: “Here it is a vaccine. What a joke, have you guessed? " Similar video Created users in English and other languages.

A chip that can be inserted into the body using an injection needle, so far only exists in the form of a development. Its size is 0.1 mm³, that is, you can see it only with the help of a microscope. Massively, this technology is not yet used. In addition, the metal object of such a small size introduced under a layer of skin and muscles could not attract the magnets that they demonstrate. Professor of the National Laboratory of the High Magnetic Field (USA, Florida) Eric Palm Explainsthat skin fat creates a surface tension that can really hold the object, but it has nothing to do with the magnetic field. As the most obvious example, he offers to recall fun with “gluing” coins on the forehead, which many of us were fond of in childhood.

The hypothesis that the interaction with the magnet causes aluminum in vaccines is easy to refute even at home, having tried the primacy of an aluminum spoon or fork. Aluminum, although it is a metal, refers To the group of paramagnetics, that is, it interacts only with very strong magnets that are not found in everyday life. 

Moreover, in the human body is normal Contained 30-50 mg of aluminum, and in vaccines "Epivaccoron" And "Kovivak" - only 0.5-0.7 mg and 0.3-0.5 mg of aluminum salts, respectively. Aluminum hydroxide in them acts as an adjuvant, that is, a compound that enhances the immune response. In the vaccines "Satellite v" Pfizer, Moderna And Johnson & Johnson The derivatives of this metal are not included at all.

Another argument against reality video about a “magnifying” child is not yet Developed vaccine. In the instructions, for example, to Gamkovidvak, known as the "satellite V", it is written that the age under 18 is a contraindication to the administration of the drug. Institute named after Robert Koch warnsthat vaccines have not been investigated for safety and efficiency in children. Only the developed Biontech Pfizer can be introduced from the age of 16. In the instructions to other registered vaccines, it is noted that the lower age threshold of vaccination is 18 years. The child in the Russian -speaking video is clearly not 16 years old.

Moreover, some of the videos were originally created for entertainment purposes, as their authors spoke in the description of the video. This happened with the Russian -speaking video - the father of the child in the signature for the video in Tiktok left the message: "Details in Telegram." In the channel, he Writesthat "the child did not go through vaccination and this video - fake." A similar story happened with an American girl under the nickname Emilaaay442. She decided Place A comic video after a sister's question is whether her hand is magnetizing after vaccination. As she then explains, before attaching the magnet, she licked it, which created the right surface tension. In the description to the video, she put the hashtag #HOWRUMORSARESPRAD ( #as the work). When the girl realized that the joke went too far, she was forced to delete the spreading video and Publish An apology to those who were in this way mislead.

Moreover, back in 2011 Reuters Published A photograph as a magnet really interacts with the human body in the place of implantation under the skin of a metal object. The authors of the video in their videos do not show anything like that real photo. 

Thus, many scientific facts refute the very possibility of a magnetic attraction between the place of introduction of the vaccine and the usual magnet from the refrigerator. Moreover, part of the viral videos was not created with the aim of spreading conspiracy theories, but, on the contrary, to refute them.  

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