“Vaccines send the immune system into “perpetual overdrive” by instructing cells to keep “making the protein of an invader, nonstop, forever and ever.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 8 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The COVID-19 vaccines that use mRNA technology don't instruct the immune system to make the virus’ proteins forever. The mRNA instructions are given at the time of vaccination and are broken down by the body within days
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 8 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 March 2021, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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