Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA and Spike Protein Are Not Cleared ‘Within Days’

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FACT CHECK

CLAIM: “The mRNA in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is broken up by the body within a few days.” “The COVID‑19 vaccines cause the body to produce a small amount of spike protein, which is cleared within days, to prompt an immune response. There is no evidence that the spike protein causes damage to cells at these levels.”

VERDICT: FALSE

Introduction

A supposed “fact check” article from Health Feedback, which generates content used by other media outlets and social media companies to suppress certain information about COVID‑19 vaccines, claims that the mRNA from mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines is rapidly broken down and eliminated from the body “within days” of vaccination. Similarly, the self-described “fact checker” claims that the spike protein generated by these pharmaceutical products is eliminated from the body “within days”.

The article, for which there is no author attributed but which was edited by Health Feedback Science Editor Ian Le Guillou, is titled “Following COVID‑19 vaccination, the spike protein is produced in small quantities in the body without causing harm and is cleared naturally within days”.

The Health Feedback article acknowledges that studies have shown that the spike protein of SARS‑CoV‑2, the coronavirus that causes COVID‑19, is by itself pathogenic; but the article argues that since the amount of spike protein that circulates following vaccination is so small and so rapidly eliminated, it cannot cause harm.

The Health Feedback article was a response to a claim from The Epoch Times that the spike protein “is harmful to the human body in at least eight different ways” and “can persist in the human body for weeks, or even months, after a person gets vaccinated”. The supposed “fact checker” organization rates that claim as “Misleading”.

However, those statements from The Epoch Times are in fact supported by scientific evidence that falsifies Health Feedback’s counterclaims.