Jan 25, 2021 Does the COVID-19 Vaccine Change Your DNA?

Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines do not change your DNA. John F. Bonamo, M.D., MS, FACOG, FACPE, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical and Quality Officer, RWJBarnabas Health, explains that mRNA vaccines train your body create a protein to help fight off the coronavirus but it doesn't change your DNA at all.

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mRNA vaccines do not change your DNA.

They work within your em to have your body create a protein to fight off the virus.

So, it doesn't change you, it just gives you the availability, and the capability, of creating this antibody that will fight off the virus.

You still have the same DNA after the injection as you had before the injection, it doesn't change your DNA at all.