Assessment of Myths Regarding Coronavirus disease-19 Vaccine among Adults

Background: Everyone, everywhere, should have access to COVID-19 vaccines.Vaccinesare a key strategy to stop escalation of the Coronavirus disease-(COVID-19) pandemic.Vaccine Myths and hesitancy can be due to lack of knowledge, false beliefs, or anti-vaccinemisinformation. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of deception surrounding vaccines andtheir development. When deciding whether to get vaccine, it’s important to separate mythsfrom facts. Objectives:To determine the myths regarding Covid-19 vaccine among adults.Materials and Methods: A community based cross sectional study was done for threemonths among adults of an urban area. Data regarding sociodemographic details and mythspertaining to Covid-19 vaccine were collected and entered in Microsoft excel and presentedas frequencies and percentages.Results: 193 adults took part in study.Maximum were aged 32-38years, 80% were literatesand majority of them were males. Residing in nuclear families was common. The mostcommon myths were related to vaccine having an effect on woman’s fertility (47.67%), sideeffects due to vaccine (56.99%) and not requiring vaccine if already infected with Covid-19(55.95%) and researchers rushed the development of covid-19 vaccine which makes it nottrustworthy (43.52%). Majority of the study participants considered vaccines can bedeveloped for common cold, HIV and other diseases.Conclusion: The circumstances in different parts of world varies and while vaccines may bevery effective at reducing number of people getting infected, they cannot assure cent percentprotection, since virus can mutate for new variants. Ending vaccination myths may also takessome time but at least can be lessened significantly if there is enough effort and collaborationfrom everyone.