• By Mayukh Debnath
  • Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:04 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that the third dose of the vaccine he received for Covid-19, after already having suffered the infection, "almost" landed him in hospital. The claim by Musk was made on X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform owned by him. He, however, did not reveal the nature of the symptoms that brought him to the brink of hospitalisation.

"...I got original Covid before the vaccine was out (mild cold symptoms) and had to get three vaccines for travel. The third shot almost sent me to hospital," he said in his post on X. "How many other people out there have symptoms that are actually from the vaccine or Covid treatment, rather than Covid itself?" Musk asked.

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Clarifying that his words were not aimed at promoting anti-vaccine narratives, he stated, "It’s not like I don’t believe in vaccines – I do. However, the cure cannot be potentially worse than the disease. And public debate over efficacy should not be shut down." 

Musk's remarks came in response to a comment on a video that he had posted with the caption, "Have you heard dis information?" The video featured numerous news headlines, which showed the efficacy of leading Covid-19 vaccines declining with subsequent clinical studies, stitched together.

The X Corporation Chairman also expressed his displeasure over the executive order passed by US President Joe Biden's administration that required employees at large private companies to undergo vaccination for Covid-19 or submit weekly negative test results for the disease in order to gain entry to the workplace.

The measure was ultimately blocked by the US Supreme Court last year. "Until the Supreme Court invalidated Biden’s exec order, SpaceX and many other companies would have been forced to fire anyone who refused to get vaccinated! We would not have done so. I would rather go to prison than fire good people who didn’t want to be jabbed," Musk said in his post.

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Advocating the use of one of the main technologies used to develop Covid-19 vaccines, including those by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, for use in fight against other diseases, Musk wrote, "There is also great potential for curing many diseases using synthetic mRNA, so let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water."

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According to the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, the concept of using messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines is based on the idea that mRNA is an intermediary messenger that must be converted into an antigen after being delivered into host cells via multiple methods.