Videos claiming vaccination efforts are causing new COVID-19 variants are fake

There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations have caused the original coronavirus to mutate. As explained by the World Health Organization (WHO), when a virus is spreading widely in a population and infecting many people, it is more likely to mutate. “The more opportunities a virus has to spread, the more it replicates – and the more opportunities it has to undergo changes,” the WHO says.

When contacted in April, Dr. Robert Bollinger, an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine told Reuters via email that “compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated people are less likely to get infected by all of the strains, including the variants.” Agreeing with the WHO’S finding, he added that, “if they are less likely to get infected with variants, they are also less likely to spread variants.”

Bollinger explained that variants are spreading quickly as new mutations develop because “unvaccinated people are getting infected and infecting unvaccinated people at a high rate.” More than 99.9% of all variant infections are from or to unvaccinated people, Bollinger said.