There are still many people who believe in myths and false news related to vaccines.
SuaraJogja.id – Vaccine is one of the medical studies used to treat dangerous infectious diseases since decades ago. It’s just that, there are still many people who believe myth as well as false news regarding vaccines.
Especially during pandemics Covid-19 like now, where the issue of vaccines is back on the rise and has caused a lot of heated debate.
It was said that the doctor who specializes in internal medicine as well as Virologist dr. Dirga Sakti Rambe M. Sc. Pd., There are at least two myths about vaccines that most people discuss and believe.
“There are two myths that most often arise. First, vaccines are not safe. Obviously they are wrong,” said in a webinar of the Committee for Handling Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery, some time ago.
He explained that vaccines that are widely used in the community have gone through a long series of studies and are also supervised by the Food and Drug Administration (BPOM). The safety of using vaccines will also always be monitored even though it has been distributed to the public.
The second myth, he continued, is that vaccines are useless and ineffective. Again, doctor Dirga emphasized that the understanding was wrong.
“Because the function of vaccines is to train the immune system to be able to form an antibody system so that it is immune. And vaccines have advantages that other prevention efforts do not have, namely vaccines provide specific protection. So they can neutralize the virus directly,” he explained.
Prevention efforts such as the health protocol with 3M coupled with the consumption of nutritious foods and regular exercise, according to Dirga, are general in nature. Meanwhile, vaccines have specific characteristics that are only able to provide special protection for certain diseases.
How vaccines work, he continued, by forming antibodies in the body which will then function for immunity.
“Vaccines contain viral or bacterial components. After being injected, the body will recognize and fight by forming antibodies that function as immunity. Then the body will remember. So if infected with a real virus the body already has immunity,” he explained.
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