![]() Many of the baseless suggestions were tied to billionaire Bill Gates after he mentioned the idea of “digital certificates” to identify people already tested for COVID-19. RFID tags can be used to store information that is then communicated to a nearby reader.įalse claims around COVID-19 vaccines containing microchips have circulated since early in the pandemic, before inoculations to combat the disease were available. In comparison, the smallest current-generation RFID chips that have been developed are around 0.25mm in size. Murdoch University professor of immunology Cassandra Berry told AAP FactCheck that in order for a microchip to pass through a syringe needle easily it would need to be smaller than 10 microns, or ten one-thousandths of a millimetre. The specifications for various 25-gauge needles show most have internal diameters of less than 0.3mm (see examples here, here and here). I don’t think this is possible considering it would also need to involve a transmitter,” he said. “The microchip would need to be a fraction of this to stop it from getting clogged. Experts say such devices would be impossible to secretly deliver via vaccine injections using existing technology.ĭr Keith Chappell, a molecular virologist and affiliate academic at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, told AAP FactCheck in an email that COVID-19 vaccines do not – and could not – contain injectable microchips or any device with tracking capacity.ĭr Chappell said the standard needle type used for vaccinations was a 25-gauge needle, which had an internal dimension of 0.3mm. ![]() The AnalysisĬOVID-19 vaccines do not contain any metallic ingredients, nor do they contain microchips. A woman in the video claims her arm became magnetic after she received a Pfizer COVID-19 jab. Similar videos have been shared elsewhere on Instagram, for example here, while the trend has also appeared on Twitter and TikTok. “We’re chipped, we’re all f***ed,” the woman says at the end of the video. “This is the arm I got the Pfizer shot in,” she says, before unsuccessfully trying to attach the same object to her other arm. ![]() A video shared on social media suggests people who receive COVID-19 vaccines will have “trackers” injected into them, causing the recipients to become magnetic.Īn Instagram post shared by an Australian user on May 10 features a video of a woman who takes what she claims is a magnet and sticks it to one of her arms.
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