Nearly two years after COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency authorization, about 80% of other people in the U. S. are in the U. S. U. S. officials got at least one dose, and 68% are fully vaccinated through one measure. Incorrect information on social media.
Vaccine skeptics (and wrongly) claim that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines fit the recipient’s DNA, a persistent claim USA TODAY has denied in the past.
A viral Instagram post from October 9 takes this claim further and falsely claims that those who won a COVID-1nine vaccine are technically no longer human. The post received more than 5,000 likes in a few weeks.
The post features a video showing social media influencer Maria Zee interviewing attorney Todd Callender, a vaccine opponent. At one point, Callender says the humans who won the vaccine genetically changed their DNA to the point that they are no longer human. , however, they are “homoborgensis” and therefore have no human rights. He claims the term “homoborgensis” comes from a paper published through NASA’s Langley Research Center.
This is ridiculous on many levels. There is no such document from Langley, as a spokesperson showed that the company does not even conduct studies on mRNA and DNA vaccines. very human
USA TODAY reached out to Zee and several users who shared posts with excerpts from the interview for comment. One responded by saying he was just raising a query about the allegation, without endorsing it.
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In the viral interview, Callender claims that the term “homoboregenesis” comes from an article on “fifth-generation warfare” from NASA’s Langley Research Center. But NASA never has such an article, according to spokeswoman April Phillips.
Langley’s think tank focuses on aviation, atmospheric science and space exploration technology, according to its search for ArrayA at NASA found no effects for the term “homoboregenesis. “
“There is no reality in those far-fetched claims,” Phillips, the center’s lead data officer, said in an email to USA TODAY. “There is no such article, and it is not a domain of studies for NASA’s Langley think tank. We have no concept how this claim circulates, however, it is patently false. “
There is also no evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines can adjust the DNA of receptors, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC’s website notes that the genetic curtains of mRNA vaccines cannot enter the nucleus of cells, where DNA is located. Vaccine mRNA is damaged after training the framework to produce a protein that triggers an immune reaction to fight COVID-19. .
Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said in a video that it would take a number of occasions for mRNA to replace DNA. First, the mRNA would want a nuclear signal so it could cross the nuclear membrane into a cell’s nucleus. Then it deserves that the paints with the opposite transcriptase enzyme be converted into DNA. Finally, you would want to use the integrase enzyme so that it can be inserted into the DNA. The vaccine does not involve any of those components.
“The probability of this is not small,” he says in the video. “It’s zero. “
AFP debunked the viral allegation.
Based on our studies, we compared the claim that COVID-19 vaccine recipients are no longer human FALSE. No NASA study suggests this, contrary to the claims of the social media post in question. And the generation of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccines does not and involves DNA, according to medical experts.
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