Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo calls on health care providers to stop using COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, citing health risks that federal officials have labeled “misinformation.” ing.
Ladapo said in a bulletin published Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shown evidence that coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna are being evaluated for “nucleic acid contaminants” that can cause cancer. He claimed not to have done so. Ladapo disputed the FDA's assertion that such a risk was “impossible” and called for an immediate halt to the use of approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
“I am calling for a halt to the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines,” the Florida Surgeon General said in a statement.
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have always been lax about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, but as required by their own guidelines, testing for DNA and human genome integration is essential. “It is unacceptable that vaccines are known to be contaminated with foreign DNA,” he argued.
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Governor Ron DeSantis attend a press conference on January 6, 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Cavaletta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
FDA officials last month pushed back against Ladapo and what the agency called a “spread of misinformation” about the vaccine's safety.
In a Dec. 6 letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Khalif and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen, Ladapo expressed concerns about the agencies' approval of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The foreign secretary said his letter cited pre-print research that showed there were “billions of DNA fragments per dose of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA coronavirus vaccines.” are doing.
Ladapo noted that the FDA's guidance on vaccines “uses novel delivery methods around DNA integration,” and questioned whether Pfizer and Moderna's mRNA vaccines have been evaluated to meet FDA standards. and pointed out the potential risk of cancer.
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a written response that it is “unlikely” that the small remaining DNA fragments could enter the nucleus of human cells and change DNA and cause cancer. Ta.
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“Based on a thorough evaluation of the entire manufacturing process, we want to make it clear that FDA is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine,” Marks wrote in the Dec. 14 letter. Stated. “Additionally, more than 1 billion mRNA vaccines have been administered and no safety concerns related to residual DNA have been identified.”
Marks went on to say that the main challenge facing regulators is “the continued prevalence of misinformation and disinformation about these vaccines, resulting in vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake. That's what I'm doing.”
However, Ladapo claims that the FDA did not answer his questions.
“FDA's response provides no data or evidence that the DNA integration evaluation that FDA itself recommended was conducted,” the Surgeon General said in a statement. “Instead, they pointed out that genotoxicity studies are inadequate for assessing DNA integration risk. Furthermore, they have blurred the distinction between two distinct elements: the SV40 promoter/enhancer and the SV40 protein.”
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“DNA integration poses uniquely high risks to human health and the integrity of the human genome, including the risk that DNA integrated into sperm or egg gametes could be passed on to the offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients. “We will bring it to fruition,” Ladapo continued. “If the risk of DNA integration in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines has not been evaluated, these vaccines are not suitable for human use.”
The FDA did not respond to requests for comment.
Pfizer reiterated in a statement that regulatory authorities around the world have authorized the use of its mRNA vaccine and found it to be safe and effective.
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“These approvals are based on a robust and independent evaluation of scientific data regarding quality, safety, and efficacy, including our groundbreaking Phase 3 clinical trials. Data from real-world studies It complements the trial data and provides additional evidence that the vaccine provides effective protection against “serious disease,” Pfizer told FOX News Digital.
“Over the course of this deadly pandemic, mRNA vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, tens of billions of dollars in health care costs, and enabled people around the world to live more freely. We have delivered more than 4 billion vaccines to 181 countries and territories in every region of the world.”
Moderna did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ladapo has had previous run-ins with the FDA and CDC. Health officials accused him in March of misleading the public about the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines by emphasizing rare adverse events and downplaying the benefits of vaccination.
