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Jennifer Gates, a medical student, shared an Instagram post after being vaccinated on Thursday.
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In the post, she joked that her “genius father” had not been implanted in her brain.
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This is a conspiracy theory that suggests that Bill Gates is planning to track the location of people with microchips.
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Bill Gates’ eldest daughter joked on social media that his COVID-19 vaccine did not result in a microchip being inserted into his brain by his “genius father”.
24-year-old medical student Jennifer Gates shared an Instagram post on Thursday to inform her followers that she received the first dose of the vaccine.
In the post, Gates seemed to scoff at conspiracy theorists who bluntly claim that his billionaire father is planning to use the vaccine to implant location tracking microchips in people.
“Unfortunately, the vaccine did NOT implant my brilliant father in my brain,” she wrote.
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In June, Bill Gates told reporters that it was “almost difficult to deny” the conspiracy theory about location tracking microchips “because it is too stupid”.
A month later, the Microsoft co-founder said, “There is no connection between any of these vaccines and any type of screening. I don’t know where that came from.”
Despite the evidence that vaccines are actually just pieces of genetic material wrapped in salt, sugar and fats, conspiracy theory has continued to circulate through online antivaxxers.
Gates’ daughter, however, used the Instagram post to remind her followers that the active ingredient in the injection is a small part of the virus’s genetic material called mRNA, not a tracking device.
“If only mRNA had that power,” she wrote.
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She also shared with her 359,000 followers that she feels “beyond the privilege” of having received her first dose.
Gates then thanked “doctors, scientists, public health experts, pharmacists and many others” for making the vaccine possible.
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