The Claim:
One cardiologist claims that because mRNA produces a “foreign protein” on the surface of human cells, all vaccinated people are injured due to “auto-immunity.”
The Facts:
A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in treating diseases of the cardiovascular system. Unsurprisingly, without additional training, they tend not to be specialists in immunology, diseases of the immune system, or autoimmunity. Of course the cardiologist in question is just quoting the authors of the articles, so they must be immunologists? No. One of the authors even claimed that mRNA vaccines were gene therapy and would cause fertility issues, all while promoting hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. None which is true.
While there have been possible claims of autoimmune issues after vaccination, those seem to be extremely rare, and those authors stress that the risk is exceedingly low and that the benefit of vaccination outweighs the risks.
In other real-world data, a recent cohort study, including over 4 million people, showed that COVID itself increased the risk of various autoimmune diseases and that vaccination against COVID was protective against quite of few of these conditions for those who eventually caught COVID.
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