Newchecker.in is an independent fact-checking initiative of NC Media Networks Pvt. Ltd. We welcome our readers to send us claims to fact check. If you believe a story or statement deserves a fact check, or an error has been made with a published fact check
Contact Us: checkthis@newschecker.in
COVID-19 Vaccine
Online sers have claimed the US S preme Co rt has r led that vaccinated people are prod cts, patented goods, and no longer h man.
One s ch ser tweeted this claim with hashtag #transh man and an image that reads, “BRE KING – In the US, the S preme Co rt has r led that vaccinated people worldwide are prod cts, patented goods, according to US law, no longer h man.”
Image in the claim f rther reads, “Since 2 13, all people vaccinated with GM-modified mRN s are legally trans-h man and legally identified as trans-h man and do not enjoy any h man or other rights of a state, and this applies worldwide..”
nother ser’s tweet reads, “US S preme Co rt r led that people with RN /DN vaccine worldwide are prod cts, patented goods and no longer h man.”
The above claim with the caption ‘US S preme Co rt has r led that vaccinated people are prod cts’ has been widely shared on Twitter and Facebook in the past few weeks.
lso Read: Taiwan’s Maz Pilgrimage Video Falsely ttrib ted To ‘Victory Celebration In Italy’
The online posts link the vaccine technology to a 2 13 US S preme Co rt case involving the ssociation for Molec lar Pathology and Myriad Genetics.
s per the r ling, Myriad “obtained several patents after discovering the precise location and seq ence of the BRC 1 and BRC 2 genes, m tations of which can dramatically increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.”
Ir f rther stated, “ nat rally occ rring DN segment is a prod ct of nat re and not patent eligible merely beca se it has been isolated, b t cDN is patent eligible beca se it is not nat rally occ rring.”
Contrary to the claim in the online posts, the co rt did not find that the h man genome co ld be patented if it was modified.
Note that the Co rt’s decision does not even incl de the words “vaccine” or “vaccines” anywhere.
mRN vaccines are a new type of vaccine that “teach o r cells how to make a protein—or even j st a piece of a protein—that triggers an imm ne response inside o r bodies,” according to Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
na Santos R tschman, a vaccine law expert, told FP that the Co rt case referred to in the online posts “is not related to the q estion of determining who/what is h man and what is not. There’s no relationship between this case and any claim related to the administration of any type of vaccine, incl ding mRN vaccines.”
Lara Cartwright-Smith, ssociate Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University told P that “receiving an mRN vaccine does not and cannot alter one’s DN , so the basis for the claim is wrong.”
“ person cannot be legally patented. While the S preme Co rt r ling said cDN co ld be patented, this in no way affected the legal stat s of the person who nderwent the relevant proced re,” she added.
lso Read: State Government’s Do Not Levy 55% Tax on LPG Cylinders, Viral Message Is False
The US S preme Co rt has NOT r led that vaccinated people are prod cts, patented goods, and no longer h man. Nor do mRN -based COVID-19 vaccines alter the h man genome. The claim’s content has no basis in fact.
2 13 US S preme Co rt R ling: https://www.s premeco rt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavir s/2 19-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html
FP: https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253 %252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9F79UG-1
stralian ssociated Press: https://www.aap.com.a /vaccine-transh man-claims-patently-wrong-on- s-s preme-co rt-r ling/
If yo wo ld like s to fact-check a claim, give feedback or lodge a complaint, Whats pp s at 9999499 44 or email s at checkthis@newschecker.in. Yo can also visit the Contact Us page and fill o t the form. Follow o r Whats pp channel for more pdates.
