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Do the COVID vaccines contain a microchip?

Health care workers answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.

Ilan Shapiro, MD confirms there are no microchips in the COVID vaccines.

This is my microchip. It’s a cell phone! They don’t need to give me a microchip to actually add me anything in my brain. The good news about the vaccines is they are clean, they are nice, and they do not have that technology. They do not have that part. They have actually, they have been making it cleaner. They have making it more efficient. That way our body needs less of the dose of the vaccine to understand how to protect ourselves. But they do not contain any type of hardware that will change or track us anything else. I think that we, I’m more worried about my cell phone than anything else.

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