 Lot of myths and lot of rumours are roaming in the minds of these youngsters. Since the COVID-19 vaccine is being made available to them since 1st of May, let us debunk the myths of COVID-19 vaccine which is roaming in their minds and let us make this COVID-19 vaccine successful. Hi Doctor, my name is Anjana and I am a student of M.A. Mass Communication from Central University of Tamil Nadu. One of the prime questions that I have regarding taking the COVID-19 vaccine is that recently there are lots of rumours or there are lots of news that's happening at all with regards to how a female's reproductive and menstrual health can be affected once you take the COVID-19 vaccine, both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccine. Hi Anjana, there was a rumour that was circulating previously stating that the spike protein in the vaccine could cross-react with your placenta which is required for birth formation. However, none of the studies to date have related this vaccine to birth defects or to the pregnancy or any infertility so far. In fact, more than 50,000 US ladies who are pregnant have got vaccinated and has been found completely safe. So the WHO has also recommended to vaccinate even the pregnant ladies who are frontline workers or who are doctors. Most of the pregnant doctors across India also have got vaccinated so remove all the fear from your mind and go ahead and get vaccinated. Hi Doctor, my name is Rishma. I just had one super quick question regarding the vaccine. As you know a lot of people are taking the vaccine now and a lot of elderly are getting affected because of the vaccine. A lot of people are suffering from dizziness or there are also news about people who are suffering with blood clots and such after the vaccine. So I just wanted to know what are the things that we could do to prevent these kind of side effects or maybe after care that we could probably give to the elderly at our home to make it a little bit easier or a better. Hi Rishma, regarding the concern for your elderly, I am very happy to know that. So two things, one is regarding the blood clots. So no study so far has related the blood clots formation to the vaccine although we saw that few people who have taken the vaccine got blood clots but it was later found out that it was the incidence rate was quite similar to that which happens in the general population and it is not due to the vaccine per se. The second thing is what you can do from your side to prevent the elderly people from getting like dizziness, fever, headache etc. which can happen immediately after vaccination and can persist for 2-3 days. So it's quite simple tips I'll give you. One is if your parents or your elderly people are diabetic please take them to the vaccination only after having food. So that will help the dizziness etc to come down. Second, if they get little fever or little body ache and headache following the vaccine you can give them paracetamol tablets that will help to alleviate their symptoms. This is Chandra and I am 26 and I am a marketing professional and if there is one question that I really have about the vaccine is what does efficacy rate mean? What is the implication of efficacy rate? Hi Chandra, efficacy is basically if suppose I give the vaccine to 100 people how many will develop the infection, COVID infection later will be analysed and based on this the efficacy of the vaccine will be calculated. So everybody is running behind the efficacy of the vaccine but what is more important to understand is all the vaccines which are approved so far across the globe have 99 to 100% efficacious in reducing your chance of death due to COVID disease and they are 90 to 100% effective in reducing the severe COVID disease once you get an infection. The basic implication is if you have taken the vaccine even though you get a mild infection you do not end up on a ventilator you do not end up in an ICU you do not die due to COVID disease after the vaccination has been done for you we have to understand the clinical implication is more towards the death due to COVID as well as the severe COVID disease which is prevented by almost all the vaccines which are approved across the globe Hi myself Rishabh my friend's mom she had a stroke after taking the vaccine that's why I am not sure should I take the vaccine or not and some of them had high fever and is there any chance of having heart issues in future or something Hi Rishabh this is to inform you that the vaccines currently available in India have undergone rigorous trials, rigorous studies not just in India but across the world and have been found to be safe and not linked to any cardiac disease or even stroke or formation of blood clots so the vaccines are completely safe and these processes like cardiac problems or strokes they tend to happen naturally in the community and it cannot be attributed just to the vaccine Hi Doctor my name is Madhivanan my question is like what will be an optimum time to leave between the two doses some people say 30 days, some people say 50 days some people say the longer the better so what will be your advice on that? Hi Madhivanan the study which has been published in Lancet which is one of the most popular journal across the globe says that you should give 8 weeks gap in between the two doses of Covishield vaccine based on this the WHO, the World Health Organization has also given the recommendation to give 8 weeks gap in between the two doses of Covishield to have maximum efficacy the same is being followed in India the government of India has given the guidelines to give 6 to 8 weeks gap at least in between the two doses of Covishield and regarding Covaxin it's an indigenous vaccine the study which was published again in Lancet on 8th of March said that if given between 28 days apart that is 4 weeks apart it has got a very high immunogenicity and was saved so busting all the myths it should be 4 weeks for Covaxin and 6 to 8 weeks for Covishield