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Oops... gene therapy misfired... who would have thunk

A tiny, insignificant glitch in safe and effective Pfizer vaccines ... hey look, puppy over there!

Tessa Lena
Dec 11, 2023
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close-up photo of white medium-coated dog running on grass field during daytime
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As you probably heard, a new Nature study is making rounds that talks about a tiny, insignificant error in the otherwise fantastic COVID vaccines that, according to the authors, in some cases led to a mistranslation of the genetic instructions and eliciting an immune response to totally random proteins.

In the oversimplified language of a five-year old, the plot of the study looks like this:

“So, we looked at some people who received the COVID vaccines (20 AZ and 21 Pfizer), and also vaccinated some mice with Pfizer. All vaccines were supposed to trick the cells into making spike protein and elicit a respective immune response. However, due to a small and most certainly insignificant glitch in the Pfizer vaccine, in about 30% of the human cases we looked at, the cells ended up producing an entirely different, random protein, and the vaccinated produced an immunity to that other protein. We could also see random proteins in mice. That is slightly unsettl…

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