VACCINE RESOURCE COMMITTEE
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COVID-19 Vaccine Question #8:
Are there microchips in the vaccine?
There are no microchips in the vaccine.
Microchips in vaccines would not be possible for many reasons, a few practical ones are listed below:
Vaccine needles would need to have an internal diameter of 0.5mm (21 gauge) or less which is too small for even the smallest tracking devices.
Tracking devices need a power source to work and adding one would make it even bigger.
The signal would need to be strong enough to pass through tissue and reach a remote centre.
There has been been preliminary studies (not in people) of using non-microchip technology to keep a person’s medical history with them (like an invisible tatoo) in settings that don’t have the ability to store records reliably. This is a very different technology that does send or receive outside signals, and has only been explored in lab studies. The rumour of microchips in vaccines often comes from a study of a recent technology to encode medical history on a patient using the spatial distribution of biocompatible, near-infrared quantum dots (NIR QDs) in the dermis. The QDs are invisible to the naked eye yet detectable when exposed to NIR light. The intent was accurate medical record keeping in low-resourced locations without centralized databases. The research was funded by the Gates Foundation. This technology is not currently used in vaccines.
Sources:
ScienceUpFirst-5 common myths about COVID-19 vaccines
The New England Journal of Medicine-Escaping Catch-22 — Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy