Hey COVID vaccine sceptics ⁠— healthcare experts answer some of the worrying questions

Whether it is the likes of Akhilesh Yadav, a senior politician, who said he will not take the vaccine because he does not trust 'vaccine approved by his rival party’, or, you choose to believe the self-proclaimed 'doctor' who claimed that the vaccine is just a ploy to reduce the population and that the coronavirus is nothing but a flu⁠ — one tiny seed of mistrust can spiral into a massive problem of misinformation.

To debunk some of the many myths floating about, Business Insider reached out to Dr Ghazzali Ahmad who works in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a frontline Accident and Emergency doctor. The first country to approve the Pfizer vaccine, the UK started vaccinations in hospitals for frontline healthcare workers on the 8th of December. Dr Ghazzali received his first dose on the 9th.

We also spoke to Shambhavi Naik who has a PhD in Cancer Biology and is a Fellow at Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru to answer some further concerns one may have regarding the vaccine.

These are some of the questions asked by vaccine sceptics that these two experts have addressed: