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Quick Take
A social media post claims that an experienced Pathologist confirms that COVID Vaccination” causes giant Blood Clots, Cancer & Infertility. We fact-checked and found this claim to be Mostly False.
The Claim
A Twitter post reads, “Experienced Pathologist confirms “COVID Vaccination” causes giant Blood Clots, Cancer & Infertility. @drcole12.” The post has received 6549 views, 135 Retweets and 297 likes until we checked last.
The same post was also found on Facebook as well.
Fact Check
Does Covid vaccination cause giant blood clots?
Rarely. As per a research published in Open Life Sciences in 2022, although Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) is one of the most uncommon side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines may cause blood clots.
The American College of Cardiology states that in extremely rare cases, the Johnson & Johnson/Jansen and Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccinations may cause vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), a condition characterized by simultaneous acute thrombosis (a condition where when blood clots block your blood vessels) and thrombocytopenia (a condition with deficiency of platelets in the blood, causing bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury).
Additionally, the image shown in the claim belongs to a man who coughed up a large blood clot that was in the shape of his “bronchial tree,” or the lung’s branched airway passages and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine ©2018, a year before the pandemic started and it doesn’t have any association with the covid vaccine.
Does Covid vaccination cause cancer?
Not exactly. The National Cancer Institute states that there is no data that suggest that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer, and lead to recurrence or disease progression. Furthermore, there is no evidence that any of the COVID-19 vaccines change your DNA (i.e., your genetic code).
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also verifies this by stating that none of the vaccines interact with or alter your DNA in any way and, therefore, cannot cause cancer.
Moreover, it is not known whether Covid vaccines are responsible for a spike in cancer cases. Scant evidence such as a case report published in 2021 that studied only one person to claim Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer that may grow after taking the Covid vaccine. We need more evidence to understand whether Covid vaccine is speeding up cancer progression.
Dr. Sarthak Moharir, Radiation Oncologist at HCG Cancer Centre in Vadodara, Gujarat, commented on why there could be a surge in the number of cases during the pandemic by stating that ‘The reality is that during the Covid pandemic, a lot of cancer patients were unable to get proper treatment on time because of fear of getting infected and due to elective surgeries being delayed. These patients ended up with advanced diseases. Some other patients got diagnosed incidentally because their tumour was discovered in the early stages of the disease because of all the screening HRCT thoraxes being done in India.”
THIP Media has already fact-checked a claim that stated that Covid vaccines can cause turbo cancer.
Does Covid vaccination cause infertility?
No. There is a lack of scientific evidence to prove that Covid vaccinations are causing infertility. The CDC also states that there is currently no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines can cause fertility problems.
As published on the WHO website, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan explains that there is absolutely no scientific evidence or truth behind this concern that vaccines somehow interfere with fertility, either in men or in women, because what vaccines do is they stimulate an immune response against that particular protein or antigen of that virus or bacteria. The COVID vaccine stimulates both an antibody response and a cell-mediated immune response against the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. So, there is no way vaccines could interfere with the functioning of the reproductive organs in either men or women.
A study published by NIH analyzed data from more than 2,000 couples who were trying to conceive and found that the ability to conceive didn’t alter due to vaccination. However, a recent infection with COVID-19 can temporarily lower infertility.
THIP Media has already fact-checked a claim that stated that Covid vaccine is causing male infertility. We found that the covid virus may negatively affect male fertility for a short period, but no evidence confirms covid vaccine can cause male infertility.
Similarly, another fact check by THIP Media found the claim that the Pfizer Covid vaccine can cause mass depopulation through infertility was Mostly False.
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