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American Thought Leaders

Kevin McKernan Talks COVID Vaccine DNA Contamination, the Monkey Virus SV40 Promoter, and What’s Actually in the Vaccines

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

News, Government, Politics

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

"There was a case where Dr. He in China did some genome edits on two children—on two babies. He made two CRISPR babies. That guy went to jail, all right? Suddenly, fast forward to today: we're willing to take that risk on billions of people."

Kevin McKernan worked at the Human Genome Project at MIT as manager of research and development. Today, he is the chief scientific officer and founder of Medicinal Genomics, and is researching DNA contamination in the COVID-19 genetic vaccines.

"There are limits on how much DNA can be in a vaccine precisely because of the concern over DNA integration," says Mr. McKernan. "What we do know is in both shots, there is residual DNA, and this DNA is either right above the regulatory limit or tenfold higher."

How do the different mRNA vaccine components impact the body? What’s really going on with the SB 40 monkey virus promoter that’s in them? Why should we be concerned about lipid nanoparticles and DNA open reading frames? And how is synthetic mRNA fundamentally different from naturally-occurring mRNA?

"Australia has different guidelines on what constitutes gene therapy, and it looks like these vaccines may, in fact, fall under that category, given the fact that there's DNA in them and they're using LNPs. And we now know that some of the DNA in there has been used and documented as a gene therapy tool," says Mr. McKernan.

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0:00.0

There was a case where Dr. He and China did some genome edits on two children,

0:04.3

on two babies. He made two crisper babies. That guy went to jail. Fast forward today,

0:08.4

we're willing to take that risk on billions of people. Kevin McCurnen worked at the human genome

0:13.4

project at MIT as manager of research and development. Today, he is the chief scientific officer and

0:19.7

founder of medicinal genomics, and he is researching DNA contamination in the COVID-19 genetic vaccines.

0:26.9

There are limits on how much DNA can be in a vaccine precisely because of the concern

0:31.1

over DNA integration. What we do know is in both shots is there is residual DNA, and this DNA

0:36.1

is either right above the regulatory limit or tenfold higher. How did the different mRNA vaccine

0:41.3

components impact the body? What's really going on with the SB 40 monkey virus promoter that's

0:47.6

in them? Why should we be concerned about lipid nanoparticles and DNA open reading frames?

0:53.7

How is synthetic mRNA fundamentally different from naturally occurring mRNA? This is American thought

1:00.1

leaders, and I'm Janie Kelley. Kevin McCurnen, such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders.

1:10.3

Thank you, Jan. I appreciate you having me on to discuss this. It's a, I think,

1:13.2

very important topic, and I'm glad you're given it the coverage it needs.

1:16.9

Well, you have actually been doing some really remarkable work looking at what's actually in

1:24.7

these COVID genetic vaccines. And most recently, there's been a lot of chatter around SB 40,

1:32.9

this, the simian virus or simian virus promoter. So why don't we jump in? Actually, I'm going to

1:39.5

start with an AP fact check. This was so important that it warranted an AP fact check.

1:45.4

AP's assessment is that it's a false that is there is a simian virus SB 40 in the vaccines.

1:53.6

Public health officials and the lead researcher of a study cited in many of the social media posts say

1:58.4

there's no monkey virus DNA in the inoculations approved by the government regulators.

2:03.2

Some COVID-19 vaccines utilize DNA molecules derived from simian virus 40,

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