AP Associated Press fact checking lies exposed, CLAIM: The COVID-19 vaccines “are a gene therapy, NOT a vaccine.”, AP verdict of false is lie, Dr. Malone is expert
AP Associated Press fact checking lies exposed, CLAIM: The COVID-19 vaccines “are a gene therapy, NOT a vaccine.”, AP verdict of false is lie, Dr. Malone is expert
From the AP.
“No, COVID-19 vaccines aren’t gene therapy
CLAIM: The COVID-19 vaccines “are a gene therapy, NOT a vaccine.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The COVID-19 vaccines do not change a person’s genes, as gene therapy does, experts say. The shots from Pfizer and Moderna use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to instruct the body to create a protein from the coronavirus. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, meanwhile, uses a modified adenovirus to trigger an immune response.
THE FACTS: False claims that the vaccines alter humans’ DNA have circulated since before their debut in late 2020.
In recent days, social media posts have shared a claim that the vaccines are “gene therapy” — which involves modifying a person’s genes to treat or cure a disease, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The posts point to a clip of Dr. Robert Malone — a vocal critic of the COVID-19 vaccines who did early research on mRNA technology — speaking about the shots during a roundtable event hosted by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in early December. In the clip, Malone is asked whether the vaccines are actually a form of gene therapy.
“As I’ve said repeatedly, it came out of a gene therapy research program,” Malone responds. “These and the adenoviral vectors are absolutely gene therapy technology applied for the purpose of eliciting an immune response.”
A tweet sharing the clip, which was also posted on Instagram, claimed: “The shots are a gene therapy, NOT a vaccine.”
Experts say that’s false.”
Dr. Robert Malone is THE expert!
From the Defender.
“COVID Vaccines Are Gene Therapy — But Big Pharma and Big Media Don’t Want You to Know That
Moderna and BioNTech acknowledged early on that their COVID-19 shots were gene therapy, but now, with help from media giants like The Associated Press, they’re going to great lengths to get you to believe otherwise.
Story at a glance:
The notion that the COVID-19 shots are a form of gene therapy is so risky for Big Pharma’s bottom line, they’re going to great lengths to make sure people don’t think of them that way.
The Associated Press (AP) published a “fact check” in which they argued that COVID-19 shots are not gene therapy because they do not alter your genes.
The AP misled readers by focusing on just one part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) definition of gene therapy — the part about modifying the expression of a gene. But the full definition also includes the words “or to alter the biological properties of living cells,” which is precisely what the COVID-19 shots do.
When the mRNA shots were rolled out in 2021, they did not meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) definition of a vaccine. They only met the FDA’s definition of gene therapy.
The only reason COVID-19 shots meet the CDC’s definition of a vaccine now is because they changed the definition to prevent “COVID-19 deniers” from saying that “COVID-19 vaccines are not vaccines per CDC’s own definition.”
While the COVID-19 shots are referred to as “vaccines,” they do not meet the classical definition of a vaccine. Health authorities actually had to change the definition to accommodate the COVID-19 shots and shut down the argument that, as experimental gene therapies, they may be riskier than traditional vaccines.
Meanwhile, based on the FDA’s definition of “gene therapy” they’re clearly gene therapies, and both Moderna and BioNTech acknowledge this.”
