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Do the COVID vaccines change your DNA?

Health care workers answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.

 

Janice Blanchard, MD, PhD explains that the COVID vaccines do not alter or affect your DNA in anyway.

 

No , no. What the vaccine is doing, it’s just actually your body is helping your body do what it naturally does. It’s not doing anything different. It’s not changing who you are. It’s not changing your DNA.

It’s just helping you make these antibodies and antibodies are what you make when you get sick already. You make specific antibodies to fight different types of diseases. So, this is just helping you make an antibody that will fight COVID.

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