A smartphone, a key, a magnet… Numerous videos circulating on social networks in recent months accuse the vaccination against Covid-19 of causing magnetic phenomena in the vaccinated. 20 minutes already informed you at the beginning of June of the false nature of this phenomenon, generally caused by oily skin, double-sided tape or a surface tension effect. But since fake news is tough, we have to come back to the subject.
An anonymized treatment “report” has been circulating virally on social networks since last week. In the latter, a doctor from the University Hospital of Rouen indicates that his patient, “vaccinated since May 27, 2021”, would have observed “by chance a magnetic phenomenon with attraction of keys, telephone”, also noted by her attending physician.
“So I see her today to see this phenomenon again”, writes the practitioner from the University Hospital of Rouen, who indeed notes an attraction of the keys “at the level of the arm, the anterior face of the thorax and also in the back”. “This is an atypical effect whose causality with the vaccine remains possible,” he says. He concludes by announcing “to make a declaration to pharmacovigilance to this effect” and by recommending that the patient have her MRI postponed, scheduled for the end of June.
Vulnerable false or real report? Explanations.
FAKE OFF
This viral document on social networks indeed comes from the Rouen University Hospital, as the communication director of the hospital center informed 20 minutes, but it does not prove in any way that a magnetic phenomenon was caused by the injection of the vaccine against the Covid-19.
“The doctor who took care of the patient was distressed to see a personal report intended for the” attending physician and him alone “posted on a social network. This doctor confirms that no link with the vaccine has been retained, but that he made a report to the pharmacovigilance service to reassure the patient and requested a non-urgent additional assessment, ”the Rouen University Hospital told us.
“Our doctors are scientists, which is why they must never be formal on the basis of a simple diagnosis, hence this expression of caution which can be read in the report”, we add. . “This magnetic effect, not linked to vaccines, is known and has been the subject of numerous” fake news “on social networks. In some patients, the skin, due to its greasy nature, is liable to cause objects, whether metallic or not, to stick. “
Following the dissemination of this document on social networks, a complaint against X was filed by the head of service at the departmental council of the Order of Physicians.