A video circulated on social media claims that a “nanobot” – allegedly contained in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Modern COVID-19 vaccines – will attack a sperm and the DNA of a fertilized egg will change. The claims presented in this video are untrue: the COVID-19 vaccine does not contain small computers or robots and will not genetically alter recipients or their offspring.
A Facebook post with the video shared more than 1,065 times here reads: ‘Better not that covid test or vaccine. I warn you. These evil psychopaths have been trying to hurt and populate us for a while now.
Another repetition can be seen here.
The track contains a female voice that begins with the warning: ‘This is what they are hiding from your family. This is what they do not want you to know. ”
She further claims that the vaccines Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 contain “millions and millions” of “small” robots “which she calls” nanobytes “, probably with reference to nanobots (here).
‘Now what you’re looking at is a nanobite attacking a sperm. And here is the sperm that penetrates the egg, ‘says the voice. “Now you have a chip that was placed in that baby with a DNA on it to destroy the baby’s DNA.”
THE COVID-19 VACCINE DOES NOT HAVE “NANOBOTS”
As previously explained by Reuters here, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine lipid contains “nanoparticles”, small particles that are between 1 and 100 nanometers in size, but not nanobots or any kind of chips or computers. The Moderna vaccine contains lipid nanoparticles (here), but not nanobots.
Reuters has also repeatedly made false allegations about vaccinating a microchip in the recipient’s body (here, here)
THE COVID-19 VACCINE WILL NOT GENETICALLY MODIFY YOU OR YOUR EXPORT
Two of the three authorized and recommended vaccines in the United States to prevent the new coronavirus (here), the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Modern COVID-19 vaccines, rely on new technology known as messenger RNA (mRNA).
As explained by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) here, instead of introducing an attenuated or inactivated virus into our bodies, mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein or a piece of protein make to elicit an immune response. .
Dr. Paul McCray, a professor of pediatrics, microbiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa (here), told Reuters earlier in an email 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, ”McCray said.
“This is what happens if you get a viral infection naturally, but the vaccine takes the risk of serious illness out of the equation.”
Reuters had earlier made false allegations on social media that a COVID-19 vaccine that injects the genetic code of the virus would genetically alter the recipient or their offspring here and there.
THE SPERM BOAT
The imagery that appears to be misleading in this allegation comes from a laboratory demonstration of the ‘sperm bone’, an artificially ‘motorized’ sperm that could be a possible method of assisted reproduction. This can be seen here in a 2016 video by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
A 2016 article published in the ACS magazine Nano Letters (here) states that the “sperm bone” uses microhelices controlled by a magnetic field to serve as ‘motors’ for the transport of sperm cells with movement defects.
At the time, researchers said more studies needed to be done to achieve successful fertilization with artificial motor sperm and before it could be tested in the human body (here, here).
VERDICT
Untrue. The COVID-19 vaccine contains not a few computers or robots. According to experts, it will not genetically alter recipients or their offspring. This clip contains a laboratory demonstration of a sperm artificially motorized with microhelice controlled by a magnetic field. It has nothing to do with the COVID-19 vaccine.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.