"The protection period of the new crown vaccine is only half a year." "The vaccine will be lost after the virus mutates." "Vaccination will modify genes" "Vaccination will affect reproductive function"... I believe that many people have seen it on social media, WeChat groups, etc. There have been similar rumors.
These erroneous remarks advocating "vaccine useless theory" and "vaccine harmful theory" have been widely spread on social platforms, causing some people to have doubts about vaccination, and have also formed a lot of interference with my country's work of building an immune barrier.
According to the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, as of April 10, a total of 164.471 million doses of new crown virus vaccine were reported nationwide, and the number of vaccinations temporarily ranked second in the world.
However, according to Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program, my country may need more than 1 billion people to be vaccinated with the new crown vaccine in order to build an immune barrier.
This means that although my country's vaccination situation is generally stable and orderly, there is still a big gap between the requirements for establishing an immune barrier.
Some people are unwilling to get vaccinated, although it is related to the wait-and-see psychology of "let others get vaccinated first, and I don't need to get vaccinated if they are vaccinated", but a considerable number of people have been interfered by vaccination rumors and chose to give up vaccination.
In particular, some middle-aged and elderly netizens with low media literacy and weak discriminating ability are more likely to be "bluffed" by sensational rumors. Not only do they credulously, they also spread widely in various group chats, and inadvertently become accomplices of rumors.
In addition, some self-media to gain eyeballs, fight for positions, grab commercial interests, maliciously fabricate facts, and slander the effectiveness of vaccines, which is also not conducive to the overall situation of vaccination.
Some social media accounts spread unfounded rumors under the guise of science; others used the public’s trust in experts to piece together research on foreign papers and domestic experts’ speeches, and then misinterpreted a set of distorted statements. .
For example, a new crown vaccine rumor spread on the Internet before falsely claiming that the source was an academic paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In fact, although this rumor seems to have noses and eyes, it is false from beginning to end, and the screenshots of foreign media reports are also forged.
It is worth noting that rumors involving vaccines exist not only in my country, but also in other countries.
American infectious disease expert Fauci specifically clarified the rumors about the new crown vaccine, emphasizing that "people will not be implanted with the new crown vaccine when they are vaccinated", "vaccinations will not make people infertile" and so on.
For some time, many authoritative experts have called for vaccination as soon as possible, and they are also racing against rumors, hoping to establish our immune barrier as soon as possible.
For example, Academician Zhong Nanshan has called on different occasions to be resolutely vaccinated; Dr. Zhang Wenhong also said that only by increasing the number of vaccinated people and enhancing herd immunity can China be less threatened by the new crown pneumonia.
The new crown vaccination work is related to the health of hundreds of millions of people and affects the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control. There is no room for any rumors to add evil on this issue.
Those maliciously fabricated vaccine rumors that mislead the public should be discovered, clarified, and dealt with in time.
Of course, relevant departments should use more detailed arguments and more authoritative explanations to clarify facts to the society in a timely manner, use professional and authoritative information to refute false rumors, and on the basis of full notification and voluntariness, strive to achieve the vaccine "should be continued. ".
(Liu Jingyao, Wang Juebing)