The Claim:
In an interview with Alex Jones, Judy Mikovits claims that vaccines were made to cause harm and accuses medical and government organizations of being corrupt, saying vaccines don’t actually help people build immunity.
The Facts:
Mikovits claims that all vaccines since 1992, including Hep B, are XMRVs – xenotropic murine leukemia viruses, which is completely false. Hep B is a subunit vaccine, meaning that the antigen is made of tiny pieces of the surface proteins of the Hep B virus. It doesn’t include DNA or anything resembling a virus in full. These tiny pieces cannot enter cells, let alone the nucleus of cells, to change your DNA or cause cancer. And to another of her points, there is no credible evidence that COVID vaccines are causing cancers.
Another problem with her claims is conflating HIV/AIDS with COVID. AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome and specifically refers to the final stage of disease caused specifically by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It is not caused by COVID vaccines or anything else that isn’t HIV.
HIV is a virus that can be tested for and observed. Without HIV, there is no AIDS diagnosis. While she claims that COVID vaccines trigger HIV, they are two very different viruses. mRNA for the spike protein of one virus cannot make an entirely different virus grow.
Vaccines induce immunity in much the way germs do. An antigen (in this case, a piece of the germ, either on the germ itself or introduced as part of a vaccine) is introduced to your body. You create an immune response and learn to recognize the antigen so that the next time it shows up, the immune system can respond faster, often before you get sick.
Vaccines have prevented disease and saved countless lives since their introduction. Since 2000, measles vaccination has prevented about 60 million deaths worldwide. Smallpox, which had been around for millennia was eradicated through vaccination.
Vaccines undergo years of research and testing before being approved. International organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) track vaccine success, showing steep declines in disease rates after vaccination campaigns.
Claims that vaccines are harmful or designed to cause illness are contradicted by decades of scientific research, real-world success stories, and the fact that millions of lives have been saved. Vaccines are one of the most important medical breakthroughs in human history, improving life expectancy and reducing global suffering through science and cooperation.
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