Seen tens of thousands of times, a video claims that Bill Gates was caught “admitting that vaccine will change our DNA forever”. The video contains authentic footage of Gates, but misrepresents his remarks: he explained how vaccines are developed using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The claim that an mRNA vaccine will alter a person’s DNA is also untrue.
The video is visible here on YouTube, Bitchute here, here and Parler here.
The video contains some of the footage visible on Gates’ own YouTube channel and blogs here, posted on April 30, 2020. In the 2:29 minute video, Gates explains how vaccines work and different methods of making them .
A spokeswoman for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation confirmed in an email to Reuters that the original video shows Bill Gates discussing COVID-19 vaccines. They confirmed: “mRNA vaccines do not alter human DNA. Bill Gates did not make such a claim. ”
The relevant clip youtu.be/u1AQ5EXcJYc?t=97 shows how Gates explains how vaccines developed with mRNA technology work. Full footage provides additional context to his remarks. He said:
‘What is usually done is that you take a piece of the virus, or just the peak, the thing on the surface, and you put it on something else. There is therefore no risk of causing the disease. One last way that is new and promising is called the RNA vaccine. Instead of inserting that form, you place instructions in the code to form RNA. The video in this claim then repeats the sentence “you put the instructions in the code to make the form. ‘
Gates says that RNA vaccines ‘place instructions in the code to form the form’, referring to the ‘genetic code needed’ to produce a pathogen’s antigen, as explained in his blog on the subject here, which used by the immune system to fight the disease (here).
RNA SETTINGS
As explained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) here, the mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccine ‘is unable to alter or alter a person’s genetic makeup (DNA)’ and it ‘affects’ does not interact with our DNA in any way “.
Reuters has previously uncovered similar claims on social media, visible here and here.
Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Alliance for Science group (here), has been deprived of the idea that such a vaccine could genetically alter an organism. Lynas told Reuters that no vaccine can genetically alter human DNA.
“It’s just a myth,” he said. “Genetic modification will involve the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell, and vaccines simply do not.”
Dr. Paul McCray, professor of pediatrics, microbiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa (here), explained earlier in an email to Reuters how a COVID-19 vaccine with a DNA or RNA vector would work:
As is the case with a vaccine that uses an inactivated (dead) virus, ‘the only change to the host is to stimulate them to make antibodies and T cells that will prevent infection with the virus or any infected cells. kill to prevent disease or reduce severity. This is what happens if you naturally get a viral infection, but the vaccine takes the risk of serious illness out of the equation. ‘
OTHER VIDEO
Some iterations of this claim include segments from another video visible to youtu.be/M-3ggR1ueqQ?t=90, which contain additional claims about quantum color technology, a specialized dye delivered by a microneedle stain, which enabling the storage of a patient’s vaccination. history under his or her skin (here, here).
As reported here, the technology “consists of copper-based quantum dots embedded in biocompatible, micron-scale capsules”. Applying the spots with microneedles produces a pattern of ‘near-infrared dye’ that is invisible to the naked eye that can be read and interpreted by a custom smartphone ‘.
However, this technology does not exist to track people to the New World Order agenda, as these videos claim (here).
The quantum dye technology project has indeed received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as reported here, but this video presents this technology misleadingly and describes it inaccurately.
The video falsely claims that the dye is a ‘chip’ and a ‘tracking system that will change your DNA’.
Reuters has previously denied allegations that this technology is a microchip.
At the time, Kevin McHugh, one of the lead authors of the research document “quantum dot dye”, told Reuters in an email that the technology “is not a microchip or human implantable capsule”.
McHugh, who was recently contacted by Reuters, confirmed that the quantum dye is not a tracking system and does not contain any personal information. He also confirmed that it will not change your DNA.
The video also claims that the dye uses the Luciferase enzyme – declared by Science Direct here as a natural “light-producing enzyme” found in fireflies and other microorganisms – that would make a person’s hand glow with clarity. () youtu.be/ksEVaO806Oo?t=70).
McHugh told Reuters that this technology “does not use luciferase, or any enzyme for that matter, or even bioluminescence”. McHugh also rejected the idea that the dye would be applied by hand, as the video claims, “This is not a website I ever know,” he added.
McHugh confirmed that to his knowledge ‘there are no plans’ to use the quantum eye technology during the new coronavirus pandemic and its implementation.
At least two candidates of the COVID-19 vaccine were made with mRNA (here), including the vaccinations by precursors Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.
VERDICT
Untrue. An MRNA vaccine will not genetically alter humans. Video shows Gates explaining how mRNA vaccines work. It also contains false allegations about the quantum color technology. There are no plans to use this technology during the coronavirus pandemic.
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