No, COVID-19 vaccines won't alter your DNA | VERIFY

As states brace to distribute COVID-19 vaccines once they are approved, there are several false and misleading claims surrounding how they will work and what they are made from.
Viewer Janice Lecklider wrote to us saying she heard the vaccine includes animal DNA and it can alter our own DNA.
To be clear, both of these claims are false.
We turned to two sources to find out more: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ProMedica's coronavirus expert, Dr. Brian Kaminski.
"When scientists and these companies that make the vaccines manufacture the vaccines, it's done in a lab. In essence, in a petri dish," Kaminski said.

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