Online post falsely claims that Covid-19 injection will damage blood cells | Fact Check

2021-12-14 09:39:53 By : Ms. bing zhang

"This experimental vaccination is a crime against humans!!!" A Facebook post shared since May 1, 2021 issued a warning. Below the title, four photos show the microscope slides of blood cells claimed by the author. 

The cells in the first picture are perfectly round, the cells in the second picture are oval, there are many small white spots floating in the third picture, and the fourth picture is covered with goose bumps.

According to this article, the first image featuring round cells shows "cells that were completely healthy before vax", while the third one reflects "foreign nanoparticles appearing in the blood!"

"Your body will never be able to detoxify from it. Eventually these particles will enter every cell of your body," the author concludes, claiming to have learned this information from "a friend of a nutritional microscopist."

This is the latest of many false and misleading claims about Covid-19 footage.

The post itself was shared 3,300 times, but inspired others, such as almost identical translations in French web articles, or Spanish message board posts. 

However, these posts are fake. They did not show blood cells before and after the Covid-19 vaccine, and incorrectly identified healthy blood cells in the image.

Chief Medical Officer Dan Milner said these pictures show the wet preparation (or wet preparation) of red blood cells, which is a sampling method that involves drawing blood, then smearing a drop of blood on a glass slide, and then Add another thin glass cover on top. Official of the American Society of Clinical Pathology.

Studies have shown that healthy red blood cells are not perfectly round, as the post suggests, but oval, oval doughnuts or biconcave discs with a clear center. The second picture in the post, not the first, is actually a picture showing healthy blood cells.

"Those pictures are rubbish. No doubt. It's just that someone misunderstood what they were looking at." Milner said he has been studying malaria smears for 20 years. He thinks these photos are amateur works. 

Milner said on June 25, 2021 that the first and third images showed incorrectly prepared blood samples. "This is a completely normal finding. It has to do with the way you prepare the sample. If there is too much water and too little water, the cells will swell or collapse."

According to Milner, the third image only shows an out-of-focus sample, with white dots depicting dirt or dust that has collected on the top slide placed above the sample, rather than what is around the blood sample itself.

"So if you focus on the cover glass, you will see schmutz sitting on the cover glass. That is not something in the liquid layer," he told AFP.

Milner added that there are currently no reports of changes in red blood cell morphology in normal Covid-19 infections, and pointed to these journals' research on the matter.

All the experts interviewed by Agence France-Presse emphasized that the conclusions in the Facebook posts lack any scientific basis.

Chloé James, a hematologist at the University Hospital of Bordeaux, France, told AFP on June 21, 2021 that the “vaccine” against Covid-19 was “not related” to the slide, and healthy blood cells were the second picture.

Véronique Vergé, a doctor and biologist at the Department of Biology and Medical Pathology at the Gustav Roussy Center in France, told AFP on June 21, 2021, “This is not a scientific article. There are no signs of methodology. This It is sufficient to show that these assertions are of no value."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) closely monitors any potential side effects of emergency use authorizations for vaccines in the United States. The European Medicines Agency has the same purpose in Europe. 

According to the World Health Organization, as of June 28, 2021, more than 2.6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been vaccinated globally.

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