VERIFY: No, COVID-19 vaccines won t alter your DNA
A viewer asked if there s any validity to claims that COVID-19 vaccines will alter your DNA or contain animal DNA. Both claims are false. Author: Tyler Paley Updated: 10:44 PM EST December 9, 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio 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.