In a video claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, it is falsely claimed that data on adverse effects prove that people die from the vaccinations and that the vaccines alter the genetic material of humans. Other claims made in the video fall outside the scope of this fact check.
VAERS DATA
The more than 17-minute video (here) features a man discussing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. At one point he says, ‘People are dying from this vaccine. It’s documented in VAERS, okay? People die from this vaccine. Specifically this vaccine. And the other one from Pfizer and Moderna. People are dying from this. ”(Here Timestamp 3.25)
VAERS stands for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Anyone can report health event recipients as part of a US early warning system to detect potential security issues (vaers.hhs.gov/about.html).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says on its website that vaccination providers are required to report any deaths after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS.
It says: “The death reports to FATHERS after vaccination do not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the death.”
“CDC monitors each death report to request additional information and to learn more about what occurred and to determine if the death was due to the vaccine or unrelated.”
The website also states: “More than 52 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020 to February 14, 2021. During this time, VAERS received 934 deaths * (0.0018%) among humans. who received a COVID-19 vaccine ‘and’ To date, FATHERS have not detected any patterns of cause of death that would indicate a safety issue with COVID-19 vaccines. ‘
Similarly in the UK, the Regulatory Agency (MHA) said in a report updated on 18 February (here) that it had reviewed reports of patients who died after vaccination, most of whom were elderly or an underlying had disease. . “The review of individual reports and reporting patterns does not suggest that the vaccine played a role in the death,” he said.
GENETIC MATERIAL
Later in the video, the man goes on to read a description of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which states that it contains the following: ‘Recombinant, replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus vector encoding the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein . ‘
The man says, ‘What I’m really saying is that this is the coding of your genetic material; it takes your genetic material, and it adds a code to your genetic material. Your genetic material then produces the SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein. ”(6.30)
The AstraZeneca vaccine works by using a specially designed, harmless virus to deliver genetic instructions to human cells so that the protein from the acre can repel from the surface of the new coronavirus (here, here).
Instead of adding a code to the recipient’s genetic material (DNA), as suggested by the speaker in the video, the cells of the body process the mRNA instructions and produce the protein (download here, see p14).
A New York Times report illustrates this process (here).
RNA SETTINGS
During the video, which focuses on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the man implies that it is an mRNA vaccine (Timestamps 10.45, 17.25) and he ends the video and says: ‘They call us anti-vaxxers. No, I’m anti-mRNA jab. It’s not even a vaccine, it’s an mRNA gene therapy sting. And it even says so. ”
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is described as a viral vector vaccine rather than an mRNA vaccine (such as that developed by Pfizer and Moderna). This means that a modified virus is used to deliver the instructions into the recipient cells (here).
VERDICT
Untrue. Reports to FATHERS do not prove that people die from a vaccine. Regulators say data do not indicate a safety issue with the COVID-19 vaccines and these vaccines do not alter the genetic material of a recipient. The Oxford-AstraZeneca is not an mRNA vaccine.
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