 What's up everybody Dr. Ali Hader interventional cardiologist. Thank you for stopping by to the channel You know, I didn't even think I'd have to be doing a video about this but despite what a lot of us are doing on social media to try and Dispel some of these myths that are out there We're still seeing the same questions asked over and over again and all sorts of misinformation out there So we're going to do a little COVID-19 vaccine true or false. All right question one The COVID-19 vaccine is not that efficacious That is completely false. In fact the first two vaccines to obtain EUA approval in the United States was the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer biotech vaccine. Okay, and these vaccines had 90 94 percent and 95 percent efficacy Take a look at this data You don't have to be the statistician to look at this graph to figure out that the vaccine was way more efficacious than placebo. Now, yes 95 percent is not a hundred percent But I put this 95 percent efficacy into perspective This is one of the most effective vaccines that we've had. This is on par with like chicken pox and measles out of the 32,000 Patients that were actually vaccinated between the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine trials There was only one patient in the Pfizer trial that had severe COVID There was zero in the Moderna trial and that one patient in the Pfizer trial was not even hospitalized They were deemed severe because their oxygen saturation dropped below a certain percentage If you want to learn a little bit more about the mRNA vaccines and their mechanism check out my last video here I'll link it up above. All right next question true or false I don't need the vaccine because I'm healthy and COVID-19 has a 99% survival rate again. That is false Firstly everybody seems to focus on this 99% survival rate now whatever the actual number is It doesn't matter because it's not just about the people who die not to mention that over 400,000 people have already died and there's many more to come But the people who survive a lot of these patients are not completely normal If you're really sick and you're in the ICU coming out of that alone is going to deem you sort of a lower functional status than two Once before not to mention that COVID seems to have these other sort of lingering symptoms that have been occurring in a lot of folks And those can be very severe symptoms or they can be even just mild symptoms But effector quality of life even in young folks I can't tell you the number of young folks I've had who've come in with these weird symptoms of palpitations fatigue brain fog In fact, I did a video about the COVID long-haul or lingering symptoms I'll click that above as well and the other part of it Even if you don't get very sick or die with COVID you could actually spread it to somebody else who may again That's how a pandemic works. It spreads from person to person not everybody's gonna die or get very sick But each of us are part of the puzzle and if we don't all play a role in this then we're never gonna get out of it We also just don't know which people are gonna get that sick again We know that the older you are the sicker you are at baseline the more likely who you're gonna get severely ill But there are still some young folks out there getting sick We all us physicians who take care of COVID patients have Anecdotal Experiences with very young folks and their 30s 40s 50s who are ending up either dead or severely critically ill Sort of like a game of Russian roulette We just don't know who's gonna get really ill with COVID and look if you're young and you're healthy That means you want this pandemic to end Don't you because I for one want to be able to go to a restaurant where I'm sitting elbow to elbow Somewhere in the East Village at my favorite sushi joint I want to be able to be able to go into a bar and fight through people to get to order my drink Just because I want to and I know maybe I want to go to a music show on a concert These are the things that are normal in society So if you do want to do those kinds of things and you better get vaccinated Okay, next question true or false getting the COVID vaccine puts you at risk for possible infertility now This again is completely false. This was all based on this idea that was proposed on a thread in reddit and that the Antibodies that are created by the mRNA vaccine which are basically antibodies to the spike protein could in fact cross-react and affect placenta Placenta is obviously something that's critical in pregnancy now a couple of problems with that number one The placenta is created well after you've already pregnant So it wouldn't cause infertility if this was actually true it could potentially cause miscarriages. Okay number two They're talking about a completely different protein Even if there's similarities antibodies will only interact with something that's identical to the sequence It's supposed to interact with okay, and thirdly this antibody response that they're proposing would also occur in the setting of COVID infection because the spike protein antibodies created when you have COVID are the same as the mRNA vaccines create That means that we should be seeing all these miscarriages occurring in patients who've had COVID We're not hearing anything about that so again This was a sort of a baseless theory without much science behind it of course because this has all been all over the media We're gonna be watching this just like we are every other adverse event But we have not seen any signal if you want to dive a little deeper into the whole pregnancy and infertility issues with COVID-19 Vaccine check out this video by dr. Mike and mom and dr. Jones really great. I'll link it above All right next question the COVID-19 vaccine will not reduce to transmission of COVID to other people now Technically this is again false and that's because we don't know the answer to that and that's because we just don't have the data Now if this vaccine does what it's supposed to do and from by all accounts what we're seeing There is no question that it should absolutely reduce transmission However, we just don't have that data yet because it takes time to gather that So I from one will be surprised if we find that this vaccine in fact does not reduce transmission as well But again, we don't have the robust evidence to make that claim So we won't we got to maintain some scientific humility unlike a lot of things that we've seen during this pandemic okay, true or false the Vaccine will not protect us against these new strains that we're hearing about out of South Africa and other areas now again That particular statement is false and again. It's because we just don't know yet now so far Some of the preliminary data has shown that this vaccine should likely protect us against those new strains There is certainly a possibility that a strain will develop at some point that could evade the vaccine So we have to be really cautious. We have to watch that but remember Antibodies can be created to multiple different epitopes on a protein So just because there's a new strain does not mean it's altered the protein that the antibodies Are supposed to react to nonetheless if a new strain were to develop that could evade the vaccines Then the beauty of the mRNA technology is that we could just print out a brand new vaccine to account for that Now the more important thing to remember is the best way to avoid a new strains to even develop from the first point is to vaccinate as many people as possible because Vaccines replicate and they mutate that's what they do So the less opportunity we give them to replicate and mutate the better the chances are we won't see these new strains and the answer to that is Herd immunity and that's going to only be facilitated through Vaccination alright, so that's it for now I'm sure we can talk about hundreds of questions. If you want to learn more about COVID-19 and vaccines check out my Instagram page I did a couple of good IG lives in there that are in the IGTV section check that out if you're on Clubhouse look for me there We're also having a lot of sessions out there to talk about the vaccines and fighting the misinformation, so Definitely subscribe and hit the bell notifications if you like this video and hopefully see you guys soon