Coronavirus vaccines

WHAT'S FACT?: mRNA like body of a car without the engine: Expert

Early research findings, anecdotes, facts stitched together from various sources: The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed a tsunami of information surrounding vaccine safety and efficacy. With so much material, discerning fact from fiction has certainly become tougher. Lim Min Zhang and Clara Chong investigate four claims and lay out how valid each one is.

A woman getting a dose of the Moderna vaccine at Yew Tee Community Club last month. Three independent bodies of medical experts in Singapore have reiterated that the risk of heart conditions associated with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine is ''very small'', and have recommended that people still get the vaccines in the interest of public health.
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An open letter penned by some doctors, which was later retracted, called for children to be given traditional Covid-19 vaccines instead of mRNA ones.

Citing a study published in the prestigious US journal Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences last month, the letter suggested that evidence had been found that Sars-CoV-2 sequences can be integrated into the DNA of infected human cells in culture.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 21, 2021, with the headline WHAT'S FACT?: mRNA like body of a car without the engine: Expert. Subscribe