Phillip Buckhaults, Ph.D. – Professor of Cancer Molecular Genetics – University of South Carolina.
- The Pfi### mRNA vaccine is contaminated with the plasmid DNA vector that was used as the template for in vitro transcription reaction.
- This DNA could be the cause of some of the rare but serious side effects like death from cardiac arrest.
- The DNA can and likely will integrate into the genomes of transfected cells.
- There is a very real hazard for genome modification of long-lived somatic cells, which could cause sustained autoimmune attack toward that tissue.
- There is also a theoretical risk of future cancer, depending on the piece of DNA and site of integration.