Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that his office is advising against further use of Covid-19 shots, citing the lack of existing safety data and concerns over DNA integration.
“Providers concerned about patient health risks associated with COVID-19 should prioritize patient access to non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and treatment,” Ladapo said in a statement. “It is my hope that, in regard to COVID-19, the [Food and Drug Administration] will one day seriously consider its regulatory responsibility to protect human health, including the integrity of the human genome.”
Wednesday’s recommendation came following a back-and-forth between the Florida Department of Health (FLDOH) and the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On Dec. 6, Ladapo submitted a letter to the federal agencies questioning the “safety assessments and the discovery of billions of DNA fragments per dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.” The Florida surgeon general specifically cited a recent pre-print study that found “billions to hundreds of billions of DNA molecules per dose in these vaccines” and “preliminary evidence of a dose response relationship of the amount of DNA per dose and the frequency of serious adverse events.”
In his letter, Ladapo pressed the FDA and CDC about whether drug manufacturers have evaluated the risks associated with DNA contaminants from the Covid shots and the “DNA integration from the lipid nanoparticle delivery system.” As Ladapo explained, lipid nanoparticles act as an “efficient vehicle for delivery of the mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccines into human cells,
