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Social media users have been sharing posts showing a video of a nurse fainting after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and claiming that if people continue to take the vaccine, it will turn into “mass genocide.” This claim is false – the nurse in the video confirmed that she has a condition where she passes out when in pain, and the vaccine has gone through safety testing.
The posts (here, here) show a video of a nurse speaking in a television interview after receiving the vaccine – she talks about how excited she was to get the vaccine, then says she feels dizzy and passes out. The caption on the post reads: “Watch this nurse pass out after receiving the COVID vaccine. However, it’s so safe, right? This will turn into mass genocide if people continue to follow these rabid dictators. “
Tiffany Dover, nurse manager at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee (here) passed out after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as seen in this video by local media WTVC- TV NewsChannel 9 here and WRCBtv 3 here.
After recovering, he told WTVC-TV NewsChannel 9, “It just hit me all of a sudden, I could feel it getting closer. I felt a little disoriented but I feel fine now, and the pain in my arm is gone ”(here).
Dover said he has a medical condition where he often passes out when in pain, as can be seen in this WRCBtv 3 video at the 2 minute 17 second mark here and in another video here.
A CHI Memorial spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters by email that the nurse “made a rapid recovery” after the incident.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognizes on its website that it is not uncommon for people to pass out after vaccinations. He says that although there is no definitive answer as to why this occurs, “scientists think that fainting is due to the vaccination process and not the vaccines themselves” (here).
There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine is designed to cause harm. On December 11, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the first emergency use authorization allowing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed in the United States, having concluded that the benefits they outweigh known and potential risks (here, here). The FDA evaluated and analyzed safety data from clinical trials conducted with more than 43,000 participants and manufacturing information submitted by Pfizer-BioNTech (here).
The CDC explains that clinical trials are evaluating investigational COVID-19 vaccines in many thousands of study participants to generate scientific data that the FDA can use to determine how safe candidate vaccines are, and that vaccine safety will continue to be Monitored after vaccines are approved for use: “The US vaccine safety system ensures that all vaccines are as safe as possible. Safety is a top priority as federal partners work to make a 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine available. “(Here Here)
According to the FDA, the most common side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are injection site pain, tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, and fever (here).
Some people have experienced allergic reactions to the vaccine, and as a result, the FDA has said that while most Americans with allergies should be safe to get the vaccine, people who have previously had severe allergic reactions to vaccines or the ingredients in this particular vaccine should avoid getting the injection (here).
Reuters has recently debunked other false claims related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (here, here, here).
VERDICT
False. There is no evidence that the vaccine is designed to cause harm: the nurse manager, who is prone to fainting when in pain, recovered; The FDA approved the vaccine after analyzing safety data from clinical trials involving more than 43,000 participants.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.
