Discredited scientist and unlicensed physician Andrew Wakefield, known as a leader of the global anti-vaccine movement, has recently begun making claims that the new mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are a form of genetic engineering and are altering individual’s DNA. The original disinformation was taken down on some social media sites, but the misinformation itself is now circulating widely. Confusion regarding mRNA and DNA has existed since the introduction of novel mRNA vaccines; anti-vaccination leaders capitalizing on this confusion by addressing it in their prominent talking points is a new challenge.
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