False claims about vaccines, specifically COVID vaccines, continue to do the rounds online.
A false claim is circulating online that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has acknowledged that mRNA vaccines have not been formally approved and that millions have therefore been vaccinated without clear guidelines.
Social posts refer to an article by a Swiss website called Uncut-News, which says that the EMA published a paper in January saying "there is no guideline which reflects the quality requirements for regulators and industry on mRNA containing vaccines".
Uncut-News says that while the paper focuses specifically on veterinary vaccines, this is still a worry for humans when these vaccines are administered on a large scale.
The website also takes issue with this line in the paper: "mRNA vaccines and their manufacturing process are a novel technology, and the resulting products differ from other types of vaccines".
It claims that this means that mRNA technology is experimental, giving credibility to anti-vaxxers, and goes on to suggest that millions were contaminated with unsafe, unregulated vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, this is all misleading, as it misinterprets what the EMA document says and stirs up criticism of vaccines without any basis.
The cited paper is authentic and is explicit that it’s only dealing with mRNA vaccines for veterinary use.
It does reference COVID, but in a way that praises the...
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