Despite the fact the Food and Drug Administration has given the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the green light, many false rumors are being spread about the drug.

According to one recent poll, only half of U.S. adults say they are ready to roll up their sleeves when the time comes to get their shot. Many are worried about the safety of the drug, in part because it was developed in record time. Experts say that about 70% of the population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity and contain the virus.

According to Eat This, Not That!, Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, an infectious disease expert from Yale Medicine, set out to debunk many of the falsehoods surrounding the vaccine to allay public fears.

“Let’s dispel some rumors especially because misinformation about COVID-19 may and can cost lives,” he said.

• The efficacy results were faked for political reasons. The expert notes that the madness of the 2020 Presidential Election caused many to believe that President Trump faked data results. The 95% effectiveness of the vaccine is based on real data, said Ogbuagu. The vaccine is the first in the country to use the genetic technology mRNA instead of viral components which helped speed its development process.
• The vaccine will alter your DNA. Not so, says the Yale physician, adding that the “mRNA vaccine is not integrated into recipient’s genome.” According to the BBC News, injecting RNA into a person doesn’t do anything to the DNA of a human cell.
• The medical profession is involved in a conspiracy. Ogbuagu says that the rumors about everyone from Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention being part of a mammoth vaccine conspiracy are false. “No! Researchers such as myself are not part of any conspiracies,” he says, according to Eat This, Not That!
• Bill Gates is behind another conspiracy to plant a vaccine microchip into those who are inoculated. According the BBC, this widespread rumor is false, and Bill Gates has no plans to implant trackable microchips via the vaccine.
• The vaccine causes infertility in women. According to experts, this information is also false, and while the vaccine was not tested on pregnant women in clinical trials, there has been no real-life evidence that the virus interrupts real-life pregnancies. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale School of Medicine, told USA Today that while pregnant women may be at slightly more risk of severe illness from COVID-19, there has been no data on complications or miscarriages.