“Covid vaccines do not modify DNA”, Iss vademecum against fake news

The “anti Covid-19 vaccines do not modify the DNA but help our body to fight a dangerous and fearful threat”. The Istituto Superiore di Sanità reiterates this on Twitter, sharing a vademecum against the main hoaxes circulating on viruses and immunization in which the ISS Vaccines Group responds to 12 of the most popular fake news on the Net. Here are the fake ‘dismantled’, one by one, by the experts: 1) ‘The short and long-term effects are not known, the vaccines were produced too quickly and the only information comes from the companies’. “The pharmacovigilance system for vaccines against SarsCov-2 – explains the ISS – is the same as all the other drugs and vaccines already approved previously. After the results of the authorization studies carried out on tens of thousands of individuals of different ages , which – underline the experts – were also conducted in this case, reports are collected from national and international regulatory agencies of possible adverse events temporally correlated with vaccination. In case adverse events not manifested during the authorization studies are highlighted, if after a thorough investigation is suspected or demonstrated a causal relationship with vaccination, they are added to the list of adverse reactions and which are listed in the information sheets of the various vaccines (post-marketing pharmacovigilance).