TRIBUNJATENG.COM, KUDUS – Alumni of Djarum Scholarship (Beswan) Djarum, involved in clinical research of Astrazeneca vaccine.
Unfortunately, the existence of vaccines is still spreading false news (hoaks) in the community that worries researchers.
Clinical Trial Vaksin for Oxford/Astrazeneca, Indra Rudiansyahdismissed the news that vaccination can actually cause death after being injected.
“It’s not true that the news about the body being injected with the vaccine can get the virus. It’s a hoax,” he said, in a Zoom meeting, themed “Facts About Vaccines and Efforts Towards Communal Immunity”, Thursday (29/7/2021).
He said the vaccine was part of a weakened virus to teach the body how to deal with the virus.
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The way it works, he said, is that the human body has a set of immune systems that have not yet recognized the Covid-19 virus.
“After the immune system learns the body becomes ready to face the immune system which can be neutralized,” he said.
According to him, the first dose of vaccination is an initial introduction, the body will call the immune system to learn it
“Then the body will form an immune memory that can handle it when the virus is active,” he said.
However, it is recognized that the body’s antibodies after the vaccine can decrease after six months.
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