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Scientists have worked on vaccines to protect against SARS-CoV-2 while various governments have rolled out COVID-19 vaccines.
However, vaccines are facing misinformation associated with vaccine hesitancy.
Zimbabwe launched its vaccination program in February after receiving its first batch of 200,000 doses of Sinopharm donated by the Chinese government in February aiming to vaccinate 10 million people of the population.
Initially, citizens expressed skepticism about the vaccines based on claims.
According to World Health Organization Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases before they come into contact with them.
COVID-19 vaccine myth busters
MYTH: If I’ve already had COVID-19, I don’t need a vaccine.
FACT: People who have gotten sick with COVID-19 may still benefit from getting vaccinated. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible, people may be advised to get a COVID-19 vaccine even if they have been sick with COVID-19 before.
There is not enough information currently available to say if or for how long.
MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility.
FACT: vaccine will not affect fertility. The fact is that the COVID-19 vaccine encourages the body to create copies of the spike protein found on the coronavirus’s surface. This “teaches” the body’s immune system to fight the virus that has that specific spike protein on it.
Myth: The vaccine doesn’t even protect you from getting COVID-19
Fact: In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, CDC states that almost all the Phase 3 vaccine trials were specifically designed to assess efficacy to prevent symptomatic diseases first, and efficacy against infection and severe disease second.
Given this study design, a 95 percent vaccine efficacy suggests that a vaccinated person has a 95 percent reduced risk of having asymptomatic disease compared to an equivalent unvaccinated individual,
According to the World Health Organization
Scientists around the world are developing many potential vaccines for COVID-19. These vaccines are all designed to teach the body’s immune system to safely recognize and block the virus that causes COVID-19.
Several different types of potential vaccines for COVID-19 are in development, including:
Inactivated or weakened virus vaccines, which use a form of the virus that has been inactivated or weakened so it doesn’t cause disease, but still generates an immune response.
Protein-based vaccines, which use harmless fragments of proteins or protein shells that mimic the COVID-19 virus to safely generate an immune response.
Viral vector vaccines, which use a safe virus that cannot cause disease but serves as a platform to produce coronavirus proteins to generate an immune response.
RNA and DNA vaccines, a cutting-edge approach that uses genetically engineered RNA or DNA to generate a protein that itself safely prompts an immune response.
One would ask what are the benefits of being vaccinated.
WHO states that the benefit of vaccination is that The COVID-19 vaccines produce protection against the disease, as a result of developing an immune response to the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
This immunity helps you fight the virus if exposed. Getting vaccinated may also protect people around you, because if you are protected from getting infected and from disease, you are less likely to infect someone else. This is particularly important to protect people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19, such as healthcare providers, older or elderly adults, and people with other medical conditions.
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