Slovakia Halts COVID-19 Vaccine Purchases Over DNA Safety Concerns

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that the government has halted a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines while the Slovak Academy of Sciences reviews the safety. Fico said the government has a contract to receive 300,000 more vaccine doses at a price of over $6 million as part of a 2023 agreement.

“We have an expert opinion from a registered expert that the vaccines used in Slovakia contained enormously high levels of DNA and substances which the producer did not show in the packaging material,” Fico said during a news conference last week. “Therefore the decision to not take or pay temporarily (for the remaining vaccines) until we have more information is right.”

Peter Kotlar, a physician and the Government Commissioner for Investigating COVID-19 Pandemic Management, said last month that the COVID-19 vaccines are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and that individuals who receive the vaccine are undergoing gene therapy “that forces the body to produce a toxin.”

Last month, Kotlar also presented results from an analysis of COVID-19 batches. “The results of the analysis of all the batches analysed proved that each and every single ampule contained an enormously high amount of a DNA vector that encodes an element for synthesizing the S Protein, if not other proteins,” he said. “Consequently, such a human organism becomes, I’m not afraid to say, officially a genetically modified organism.”

The HighWire reported in February that the CDC failed to provide evidence to support its claim that “COVID-19 vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way.” The Informed Consent Action Network sent a FOIA request asking for the evidence, and the CDC replied, “Subject matter experts have informed us that it is not biologically possible for the vaccines to change or interact with an individual’s DNA,”

ICAN sent an additional FOIA request for the names of the subject experts who claim it is biologically impossible. The source of the claim was Kierra Ross, a public health analyst at LSI (Logistics Systems Incorporated), who conducted a 10-minute “outlook and drive search for “COVID-19 vaccine” and “host DNA interactions” and “found no records.”

Last year, The HighWire reported about Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s request to halt the use of the COVID-19 vaccines because the FDA failed to address his concerns regarding potential DNA integration. Dr. Phillip Buckhaults and other health experts raised the alarm about high levels of the SV40 enhancer/promoter. Dr. Buckhaults said there hasn’t been appropriate safety testing to determine this is a safe level for an mRNA vaccine with lipid nanoparticle encapsulated DNA.

Moderna Faces Suspension From UK Trade Body

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is conducting an audit of Moderna after they found Moderna breached industry rules by offering children cash and a teddy bear for participating in the COVID-19 clinical trials. Moderna may be suspended or expelled from the ABPI when a ruling is made.

Moderna was fined 14,000 euros in October for sending WhatsApp messages to minors offering 1,500 euros for participation in the NextCOVE COVID-19 vaccine booster trial. The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) determined the payment was “much higher than would be considered a reasonable reimbursement.”

In 2023, Britain’s pharma watchdog found that Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation published advertisements for children 12 years and older offering “a lovely certificate and a ‘be part of the research’ teddy bear.” Moderna was fined 44,000 euros for this action, which was determined to be damaging to the industry’s reputation.

The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 states, “No incentives or financial inducements are given to the minor.” The regulations state the importance of providing informed consent to the parent and the minor.

Dr. Simon Marshall, the director of clinical development at Moderna, co-authored promotional articles and sent out promotional tweets without disclosing his position. One of the articles he co-authored was with Nadhim Zahawi, a former vaccines minister.

Moderna informed the PMCPA that it acted quickly after learning about the breaches in January 2024. The PMCPA said Moderna was aware of the breaches in August 2023 when UsForThem, a UK advocacy group, contacted the company. Moderna misled regulators by stating they were first informed of the breaches in 2024.

UsForThem founder Molly Kingsley told the Telegraph that Moderna “put profit ahead of the health and safety of children.” She said the company “laid bare just how little regard it has had for the regulatory system that was supposed to keep it honest.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Considers Removing COVID-19 Vaccine From Childhood Schedule

Last week, Politico reported that HHS Secretary Kennedy is considering removing the COVID-19 vaccine from the childhood schedule. Politico noted that this decision would not prevent children from having access to these vaccines, but it would no longer be a recommendation by the CDC.

Politico added, “But the change would represent an extraordinary intervention by Kennedy to override the agency’s scientific decision-making and reverse a recommendation backed by the CDC and a slate of independent advisers just three years ago.”

The HighWire has reported significant differences between health agency recommendations in the United States compared to other nations, as well as the revolving door between the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory bodies in the U.S. The UK, for example, healthy children are not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination unless they are part of a clinical risk group.

Secretary Kennedy has not made any public statements about considering the removal of the COVID-19 vaccine from the childhood vaccination schedule. Politico’s report was based on two anonymous sources.