Florida State Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ledepo, has recently come under fire for spreading misinformation about the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. In a letter to the FDA, Ledepo claimed that contaminants in these vaccines can integrate into DNA, leading to the development of cancerous cells. However, these claims have been thoroughly debunked.
Leading experts, including Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have called out Ledepo's assertions as baseless. Dr. Offit explained that the nanogram levels of fragmented DNA found in these vaccines would be rapidly eliminated by the cytoplasm if they entered the body. Even if they managed to reach the nucleus, it would be impossible for them to integrate into DNA without specific enzymes, which are not present in these fragments.
