Florida Surgeon General calls for halt to COVID-19 vaccine usage after FDA said he spread misinformation

Florida State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is looking on healthcare suppliers to halt the usage of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, citing purported well being dangers labeled “misinformation” by federal officers. 

In a bulletin issued Wednesday, Ladapo claimed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not proven proof that coronavirus vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna have been assessed for “nucleic acid contaminants” that might trigger most cancers. Disputing claims by the FDA that such danger is “implausible,” Ladapo referred to as for an instantaneous stoppage to the usage of the permitted mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

“I am calling for a halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” the Florida surgeon common said in an announcement. 

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have always played it fast and loose with COVID-19 vaccine safety, but their failure to test for DNA integration with the human genome — as their own guidelines dictate — when the vaccines are known to be contaminated with foreign DNA is intolerable,” he asserted. 

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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Gov. Ron DeSantis at a information convention in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 6, 2022.  (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)

A prime FDA official final month pushed again towards Ladapo and what the FDA referred to as “the proliferation of misinformation” on vaccine security.

Ladapo raised considerations in regards to the company’s approval of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in a Dec. 6 letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen. His letter cited a pre-print research that, in accordance to the surgeon common, confirmed there are “billions of DNA fragments per dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.” 

Pointing to FDA steerage on vaccines that “use novel methods of delivery regarding DNA integration,” Ladapo questioned whether or not the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines had been assessed to meet FDA’s requirements, noting a possible danger of most cancers.

In a written response, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote that it’s “implausible” that residual small DNA fragments might discover their manner into the nucleus of human cells after which alter DNA to trigger most cancers.   

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“We would like to make clear that based on a thorough assessment of the entire manufacturing process, FDA is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines,” Marks wrote in a Dec. 14 letter. “Additionally, with over a billion doses of the mRNA vaccines administered, no safety concerns related to residual DNA have been identified.” 

Marks went on to say that the chief problem regulators face “is the ongoing proliferation of misinformation and disinformation about these vaccines which results in vaccine hesitancy that lowers vaccine uptake.”  

However, Ladapo contends FDA didn’t reply his questions. 

“The FDA’s response does not provide data or evidence that the DNA integration assessments they recommended themselves have been performed,” the surgeon common said in an announcement. “Instead, they pointed to genotoxicity studies — which are inadequate assessments for DNA integration risk. In addition, they obfuscated the difference between the SV40 promoter/enhancer and SV40 proteins, two elements that are distinct.” 

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“DNA integration poses a unique and elevated risk to human health and to the integrity of the human genome, including the risk that DNA integrated into sperm or egg gametes could be passed onto offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients,” Ladapo continued. “If the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings.” 

The FDA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. 

In an announcement, Pfizer reiterated that regulatory companies throughout the globe have approved the usage of its mRNA vaccine and located it secure and efficient. 

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“These authorizations are based on robust and independent evaluation of the scientific data on quality, safety and efficacy, including our landmark phase 3 clinical trial. Data from real world studies complement the clinical trial data and provide additional evidence that the vaccine provides effective protection against severe disease,” Pfizer informed Fox News Digital. 

“Over the course of this deadly pandemic, mRNA vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, tens of billions of dollars in health care costs, and enabled people worldwide to go about their lives more freely. We have delivered more than 4 billion vaccines to 181 countries and territories in every region of the world.”

Moderna didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. 

Ladapo has beforehand clashed with the FDA and CDC. In March, the well being companies accused him of deceptive the general public on COVID-19 vaccine uncomfortable side effects by highlighting uncommon opposed occasions and downplaying the advantages of vaccination.