The Claim:
It’s as predictable as the sunrise: a celebrity (Kate Middleton) announces something health-related (cancer), and the anti-vaxxers blame vaccines without proof.
The Facts:
This tweet follows a pattern for the author, who blames many events and deaths to the COVID vaccine, regardless of evidence and even despite known causes of death, such as car accidents.
No evidence supports the claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause so-called turbo cancer or any other form of cancer. The idea that these turbo cancers are a result of vaccines stems, in part, from claims that doctors are seeing huge spikes in cancer rates. However, even some of the most powerful carcinogens can take years to manifest in the form of cancer. While there has been an increase in early-onset cancers (not turbo cancer), this increase started in the early 1990s, well before the introduction of COVID vaccines.
We know that mRNA vaccines cannot change your DNA. Your DNA is housed in the nucleus of your cells and contains all the instructions for the development and functioning of your body. Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is transcribed and carries those instructions outside the nucleus where they are implemented. The mRNA introduced by a vaccine cannot enter the nucleus where the DNA is housed.
Vaccines are not shown to cause cancer, and anti-vaxxers have yet to produce credible evidence the vaccine is causing turbo cancers.
Read more of our posts debunking claims about COVID vaccines and cancer.
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