
Pressing the round magnet to her deltoid. If you have a super strong magnet, it will work much better. Standing in front of her camera, she explained to users that she just received her COVID-19 vaccine and wanted to see if a magnet would stick to her arm. Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine will not make you magnetic, including at the site of vaccination which is. I have checked that magnets are not attracted to our arms!”, he wrote. The magnet will attract the bits of iron in the cereal and you can pull them out. But instead of facts, all these people have are oily arms and some tape, experts say. “By the way, my wife was injected with her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine today, and I had mine over two weeks ago. Professor Michael Coey from the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin ( here) also described the claims as “complete nonsense”, telling Reuters via email that you would need about one gram of iron metal to attract and support a permanent magnet at the injection site, something you would “easily feel” if it was there. Medical professionals at the Meedan Health Desk said: “The amount of metal that would need to be in a vaccine for it to attract a magnet is much more substantial than the amounts that could be present in a vaccine's small dose” ( here). Thirdly, even if COVID-19 vaccines did contain magnetic metals, they would not cause a magnetic reaction.

Many other shots do have small amounts of aluminium, which does not stick to magnets, ( here) but Oxford University researchers say this is no more harmful than the minimal quantities found naturally in almost all foods and drinking water ( here). Secondly, none of the COVID-19 jabs approved in the United Kingdom or the United States contain metallic ingredients ( here, here, here and here). However, these posts are not evidence of a magnetic reaction nor that COVID-19 jabs contain a microchip.įirstly, Reuters has debunked baseless conspiracies about microchips in coronavirus vaccines throughout the pandemic, which often targeted the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ( here, here, here, here and here). Only one video named a specific vaccine, claiming the individual on camera had received the Pfizer/BioNTech shot ( here). Several clips said the supposed phenomenon was proof that people were microchipped ( here, here and here), while others provided no explanation for the “magnet challenge” ( here and here). Im not sure hoax is entirely the right word, as there are some people who genuinely believe it.
Magnet sticks to arm after covid vaccine series#
The flawed claim was made in a series of viral videos claiming to show magnets attracted to the arms of alleged jab recipients.

Vaccines for COVID-19 do not contain metals or microchips that make recipients magnetic at the site of injection, physics and medical experts have told Reuters. This article has also been updated to clarify that not all metals are magnetic. These sentences have been removed as they have no bearing on the verdict of the check.

Correction Jun 25, 2021: An earlier version of this check incorrectly described the mechanism of MRI scans and gave an incomplete account of the weak magnetic interactions relating to the human body. Bhubaneswar: People in Odisha have also been claiming about having developed magnetic powers after taking a second dose of the COVID vaccine by sharing.
