At a glance
- Claim: Vaccination exposes you to COVID-19 infection.
- Rating: FALSE
- The facts: You cannot get a COVID-19 infection from the vaccine. Multiple medical societies still recommend getting vaccinated against COVID-19. The Baltimore study that presidential candidate Jose Montemayor Jr. cited also found that those hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.
- Why we fact-checked this: This claim was made by presidential aspirant and cardiologist Montemayor during the Comelec-sponsored presidential debates.
Complete details
On Saturday, March 19, presidential candidate Jose Montemayor Jr., a doctor, made the claim that COVID-19 vaccines expose you to infection. In the debate organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), he said: “Palagi ‘nyong hinahanapan niyan (vaccination cards) when, in fact, ang mismong vaccination will expose you to infection! This the reverse now, according to the Baltimore study.”
(You always look for the vaccination card, when in fact vaccination will expose you to infection!)
This claim is false.
You cannot get a COVID-19 infection from the vaccine. All vaccines need something that can teach your body to trigger an immune response against the COVID-19 virus. This can come in the form of a messenger RNA, a weakened form of the virus, a viral vector that contains material from COVID-19, or a protein from the COVID-19.
All of these have been carefully studied and tested so as to not give you a COVID-19...
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