Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo called for a halt in the use of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. The physician said there are health risks that have been ignored by federal officials:
I am calling for a halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
In a statement, Ladapo stated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "have always played it fast and loose with COVID-19 vaccine safety, but their failure to test for DNA integration with the human genome - as their own guidelines dictate - when the vaccines are known to be contaminated with foreign DNA is intolerable."
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According to the doctor, there is no evidence that vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna have been tested for "nucleic acid contaminants" that could cause cancer.
FDA rejects Ladapo's statements
In a letter sent to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen, Ladapo laid out his concerns regarding the agency's approval of mRNA vaccines. The study shows that there are "billions of DNA fragments per dose of Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 mRNA vaccines," which he claims could cause cancer.
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This is what the FDA termed "proliferation of misinformation" referring tovaccine safety. Likewise, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, stated that it is "implausible" that DNA fragments can alter DNA to cause cancer:
We would like to make clear that based on a thorough assessment of the entire manufacturing process, FDA is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines ... With over a billion doses of the mRNA vaccines administered and following very careful review of all the available scientific evidence, the FDA has not identified safety concerns related to the sequence of, or amount of, residual DNA.
However, Ladapo reaffirms that the FDA did not answer his questions and asserted that "if the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings."
The FDA’s response does not provide data or evidence that the DNA integration assessments they recommended themselves have been performed. Instead, they pointed to genotoxicity studies – which are inadequate assessments for DNA integration risk. In addition, they obfuscated the difference between the SV40 promoter/enhancer and SV40 proteins, two elements that are distinct.
