The most common COVID vaccine myths explored By Maggie Fox, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: US Surgeon General Jerome Adams receives the COVID-19 vaccine in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC on December 18, 2020. (CNN) – How could the COVID-19 vaccine possibly be safe if it was produced, tested and authorized in record time? How can we trust anything backed by this administration? Vaccines, especially, attracts myths and rumors and coronavirus vaccines seems to be fiction magnets. Here are a few of the more common ones: The COVID-19 vaccines were too rushed. We cannot know if they are safe. It's true the vaccines being produced against coronavirus were created in record time. But that's not because they were rushed. It's because of careful preparation. The technology that underlies both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines -- the first two to get through the US regulatory process -- has been in the works for more than a decade and was made precisely for a pandemic situation.