No, Covid-19 Vaccines Won’t Change Your DNA

Here’s how they actually work

Emily Mullin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
3 min readJan 8, 2021

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The false claim that coronavirus vaccines will alter a person’s genetic code has spread on social media platforms in recent months as companies like Pfizer and Moderna sprinted to develop vaccines against the highly contagious virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Emily Mullin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.