Covid-19 vaccine won’t change human DNA
It’s scientifically false that a potential vaccine for Covid-19 would change people’s DNA and make them “genetically modified,” according to scientists and researchers.
Such claims, which are widespread on social media, have caused much shock and confusion.
To the public’s surprise, some claimed that a future Covid-19 vaccine offers access to “injecting genes” into humans and genetically modify them.
Meanwhile, others said the new vaccine will be an mRNA vaccine that will “wrap itself into your system” and alter a person’s DNA. MRNA refers to messenger RNA, which is a single-stranded RNA molecule complementary to one of the DNA strands of a gene. DNA and RNA are the two main types of nucleic acids.
DNA provides the code for the cell’s activities, while RNA converts that code into proteins to carry out cellular functions, according to publicly available expertise.
The World Health Organization (WHO) clarifies on its website that the working principle of vaccination is to stimulate the immune system “with an infectious agent, or components of an infectious agent, modified in such a manner that no harm or disease is caused, but ensuing that when the host is confronted with that infectious agent, the immune system can adequately neutralize it before it causes any ill effect.”
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