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5. DNA Contamination Detected in mRNA Vaccines, and FDA’s Response
In the spring of 2023, researchers found that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines contain DNA fragments, including controversial SV40 genes, previously undisclosed to the public.
In
a preprint published in April, Mr. McKernan and his team found DNA fragments in both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines that exceeded the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) 330 nanograms (ng) per milligram requirement and the FDA’s 10 ng/dose requirements.
Furthermore, Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines contained genes from the simian vacuolating virus 40, also known as SV40. The full SV40 virus had a controversial link to cancer.
“Pfizer never disclosed the SV40 information to the EMA. They gave them a plasmid map of what the plasmid consisted of, with all of the features labeled, with the exception of the SV40 site,” Mr. McKernan said.
Health Canada confirmed its knowledge of the SV40 contamination in the Pfizer vaccines but added that “the sponsor did not specifically identify the SV40 sequence.”
The EMA echoed the statement with a
similar response.
6. COVID Vaccine-Injured People Compensated
In April, the U.S. government compensated people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines
for the first time.
7. Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin: FDA Lawyer
Two years after health authorities criticized the use of ivermectin for treating COVID-19, with some
doctors’ medical licenses suspended for prescribing it, a lawsuit revealed that doctors actually could prescribe ivermectin as a therapeutic for COVID.
“FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors
do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
8. Mask Mandates Return in August, New COVID Vaccines Approved
While no federal agencies have reinstated masking mandates, some workplaces, schools, and hospitals
started bringing back mask mandates in August due to rising COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Soon after, on Sept. 11, the FDA approved the new COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. These vaccines contained mRNA sequences of the omicron variant XBB.1.5, which was
no longer the active variant by the time of approval.
9. Final Batch of Pfizer Vaccine Documents Released by the FDA
Under FOIA, the FDA released the final 51,000 pages of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine document.
The following several things came to light with the release of these 51,893 pages:
- The FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Sentinel Program is insufficient to assess the serious risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and subclinical myocarditis associated with the Pfizer vaccine.
- Emails from the FDA CBER Review Team in August 2021 reveal that the FDA was aware that the vaccines may have contained endotoxins.
- Pfizer’s COVID vaccines may have several manufacturing problems. Several batches of COVID-19 vaccines were flagged for deviating from product quality standards, yet the affected batches were released to the public in various lots, the numbers of which were redacted.
- The FDA’s memo on pharmacovigilance noted that “there are VAERS reports of deaths due to COVID-19 in patients reported to be fully vaccinated. It is expected there may be some cases of vaccination failure, especially in elderly or immunocompromised subjects.”
- The FDA’s memo on the licensing application for Pfizer contains comments wherein FDA clinical reviewers stated that Pfizer’s data “exceed FDA’s expectations.” It also mentioned that the cardiac events reported during the trial were “unlikely to be related to vaccination,” even though cardiac events and/or heart failures were almost double the cases in the placebo arm (10 versus six).
10. Not Messenger RNA but Modified RNA, Vaccines Form Aberrant Proteins
While the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on the market were advertised as messenger RNA, meaning naturally occurring RNA in the body,
documents from Pfizer and
studies on Moderna vaccines showed that the actual mRNA used is modified RNA, or modRNA.
Naturally occurring mRNA is primarily composed of uridine, while the modRNA in vaccines has had most of the uridine switched to pseudouridine to make the vaccines hardier and more resistant to immune degradation.
This has been confirmed in a
recent Cambridge study that found around 8 percent of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines to be misread and to generate aberrant proteins. Researchers determined that the pseudouridine change to the mRNA sequences makes the vaccine particularly “error-prone.”
This unique, aberrant protein formation can cause unintended immune responses among Pfizer vaccinees.