No, There's Nothing Magnetic in the COVID-19 Vaccines — Experts Debunk Misinformation 3 Shares In today's edition of misinformation circling about the COVID-19 vaccine: magnetic ingredients. People are posting videos on social media claiming that ingredients in the COVID-19 vaccines are making magnets stick to the arm where they received the vaccine; some even say an implanted microchip is to blame. TikTok recently took down one of these viral videos that allegedly demonstrated this magnetic attraction, and Instagram blurred a similar video, labeling it false information. You may have seen compilations of these videos going around. But no ingredients used in the COVID-19 vaccines are actually magnetic in nature.