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Friday, Jan. 14, 2022

Do COVID-19 vaccines contain exclusive nanotechnology to create a ‘slave species’?

Ed Payne, Lead Stories
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Anti-vaccination group La Quinta Columna (The Fifth Column) provides no proof for its claims in an online video and article that COVID-19 vaccines contain nanotechnology to create a "slave species." Patents and ingredient lists for the vaccines do not show any of the "NanoRouters … Nano-Antennas and Plasmonic Antennas" alleged by the group to be in them.

The nearly 11-minute presentation is a laundry list of debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines.

A check of the government fact sheets for the four vaccines shows none of those nanotechnologies or electronic components are in them.

In an Oct. 8, 2021, tweet, the FDA dismissed the notion, saying vaccines "DO NOT contain microchips, cause cancer or alter your DNA. The FDA carefully evaluated and analyzed the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines."

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