GREEN BAY, Wis. — Many are looking ahead to when the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available to the general public.

Like with anything new, some questions and myths start to pop up. Spectrum News 1 spoke to Dr. Ashok Rai, President and CEO of Prevea Health, to help debunk some of these.

A common misconception is how vaccines can change or affect your DNA. Dr. Rai, is assuring  it won't happen with this vaccine.

The COVID-19 vaccine is based on messenger RNA, or mRNA technology. What enters your body "instructs" or relays a message to cells on how to identify and protect your immune system from the virus.

 “It doesn’t go into the part of the cell that has your DNA in it, so it's not creating COVID-19 inside of you, it's not interacting with your DNA,” Dr. Rai.

said. “It is creating a protein that your body will recognize as foreign and more importantly remember that response.”

Another popular myth was also debunked: Tracking devices in the vaccine.

"it's not something that’s happening, at all,” Rai said. “All that’s in this vile, described as mRNA wrapped in 4 different substances that create a particle around it, and once it's thawed out we put a little bit of saline in there so we can dilute it inside a person's body.”

The CDC is asking those who receive the vaccine to report back any symptoms after receiving the first dose. This can be done via an app, however, it is not tracked, and completely optional.

Additionally, the timeline for the production of the vaccine is referred to as a medical innovation by many health experts. Questions arise of the vaccine's effectiveness, due to how quickly it became available. However, experts ensure this does not compromise effectiveness. The achievement reflects the collective effort, focus, and federal funding that sped up this process.

"Really how we got here this fast is technology, [we] have that mRNA technology, which is new, not completely new to us, its been used before but new in this format, and then having the funding to accelerate the research behind it, and the production of it which has never been seen before,” Rai said.

Experts understand vaccines are often scrutinized by the public, but assures that this is the beginning of getting back to a “normal” life once again​.