DNA Fragments Found in COVID-19 Vaccines May Permanently Alter Your DNA

A cancer genomics expert analyzed samples of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and found billions of DNA fragments that can integrate into the human genome and activate cancer cells.

It’s always been on the back burner of my mind that COVID-19 vaccines could potentially alter DNA, yet I’m not a geneticist—and I knew I wouldn’t roll up my sleeve and become a guinea pig in this mass experiment regardless. But many people did. Now millions of people may have permanently altered their DNA and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the name of preventing what is largely the equivalent of a mild case of the flu.

Enter Dr. Phillipp Buckhaults, a cancer genomics expert and professor at USC who holds a doctoral degree in molecular biology and biochemistry. He also just so happened to get not one but three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. So you can rest assured, this is not just an “anti-vaxxer” with an axe to grind.

Buckhaults, on Sept. 13, said during his testimony before the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee that his lab detected billions of tiny fragments of DNA in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. If you didn’t know anything about DNA, you might not think this is a big deal, but in reality, it’s a huge problem and could explain the vast array of adverse events we’re seeing following COVID-19 vaccines, from death to cancers.

“There is a very real hazard” that these fragments of foreign DNA can insert themselves into a person’s own genome and become a “permanent fixture of the cell,” Buckhaults stated. He and his team are experts at detecting foreign pieces of DNA, even at very low levels.

If you have time to watch his testimony, you absolutely should.

Buckhaults and his team made the following findings after analyzing Pfizer’s vaccine in their lab:

• Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine is contaminated with the plasmid DNA vector used as the template for the in vitro transcription reaction. It does not just contain mRNA.

• DNA contamination could explain the cause of some of the rare but serious side effects following COVID-19 vaccination, such as death from cardiac arrest.

• The DNA can and likely will integrate into the genomic DNA of transfected cells.

• Genome modification of long-lived transfected somatic cells (like stem cells) could cause a sustained autoimmune attack toward that tissue.

• There is a theoretical risk of cancer depending on the piece of DNA and where it integrates. It can interrupt a tumor suppressor or activate an oncogene.

• The Pfizer vaccine used during clinical trials is NOT the same as the one on the market that millions of people are getting.

• Pfizer knew about this little DNA problem, as they made efforts to “chop up” the DNA strands into fragments.

“I sequenced all the DNA that was in the vaccine, and I can see what’s in there, and it’s surprising that there’s any DNA in there, and you can kind of work out what it is and how it got there, Buckhaults said. “And I’m kind of alarmed about the possible consequences of this both in terms of human health and biology—but you should be alarmed by the regulatory process that allowed it to get there.”

Buckhaults explained how DNA gets transcribed into RNA, and RNA gets translated into protein. I’ll spare you the explanation because you can watch his testimony above, but suffice it to say that “this is how life runs.”

In short, this issue is significant because DNA is a long-lived information storage device. What you’re born with, you’re going to die with and will pass on to your kids, so alterations to DNA stick around, whereas RNA, by its nature, is temporary. It doesn’t last, and that feature of RNA was part of the sales pitch for the COVID-19 vaccines. Once proteins are made, they also don’t last forever, but things that make their way into DNA last a very long time, potentially a lifetime, according to Buckhaults.

Because there are so many smaller DNA fragments in COVID-19 vaccines, there are many opportunities to modify the cells of a vaccinated person. In one sequence Buckhaults’ team ran, there were more than 100,000 fragments of DNA.

Buckhaults and his team took the DNA fragments and pieced them together to figure out the source DNA. They discovered the plasmid used in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to produce mRNA the company used to clone the spike protein into.

A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell of a bacteria that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. It is commonly used in the laboratory manipulation of genes.

“The DNA in the vaccine is a contaminate leftover from the process used in large-scale production. This DNA was not present in the materials used in the trials because the process of making the stuff was different” (it did not use this plasmid DNA).

Pfizer Used Two Different Manufacturing Processes

Buckhaults explained how two manufacturing processes were used to make Pfizer’s vaccine—the one in their clinical trial and the current process used in mass production. U.S. regulatory agencies did not evaluate the current process used in mass production.

The initial production of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine used a method called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to amplify the DNA template used for the production of the mRNA and to make a highly pure mRNA product. But to “upscale the process” for mass distribution to obtain Emergency Use Authorization, Pfizer switched to a different process to amplify the mRNA.

The second process used bacteria to make large quantities of “DNA plasmid”—circular DNA instructions—then used to make the mRNA. However, the final product contained plasmid DNA and mRNA, contaminating the vaccine.

Buckhaults estimates there are about two billion copies of just one piece of the DNA fragment containing the origin of replication in each vaccine dose, which means there are about 200 billion pieces of the plasmid DNA in each vaccine dose. It’s encapsulated in the lipid nanoparticle, ready to be delivered inside the cell.

Buckhaults said vaccinated people need to be tested—both harmed people and unharmed people to see if the DNA is being integrated into cells because it leaves a fingerprint behind. He called on elected officials to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to demand Pfizer get plasmid DNA out of its COVID-19 vaccines.

Buckhaults says he is a “real fan of this platform,” but the financial incentives are too great, and regulatory agencies need to get Pfizer to remove this DNA. Buckhaults confirmed that Pfizer knows it has plasmid DNA in its vaccine because it took efforts to “chop it up” into fragments—they just didn’t get it all out.

Genomics expert Kevin McKernan also found plasmid DNA contamination in both Pfizer and Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccines in amounts that far exceeded the safety limit set by the FDA.