Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · Why are we still waiting for travel bubbles? · 14 Dec 2020 podcast

So this you know uh superficially it sounds like a question.

Well that sounds like a mad question.

It's not a mad question at all, because you are giving for the first time probably a vaccine which actually changes the genetic information in the cell.

Therefore, you think, well, cancer's a genetic disease, which it is, a disease of genes, and therefore could it actually affect that?

And the answer is no, it won't cause cancer.

And you can say that.

That we you know pretty confidently for a couple of reasons.

And the simplest reason is that all these vaccines are doing is imitating what the coronavirus does to our cells.

So viruses do not multiply by themselves.

If you leave the virus on a table, they don't multiply.

If you put bacteria on a surface and you walk away, there could be

Millions more bacteria an hour later than there were when you've when they first landed, because they have the ability to multiply and replicate by themselves.

So in order for the virus to replicate, it's got to get inside our bodies, through our nose and a respiratory tract, inside the cells or initially of our respiratory tract, and they give the message to the cells: stop, whatever else you're doing, you're going to reproduce m me in my entirety.

So the COVID-19 virus.

In its entirety.

And that's what the virus does.

It turns over our cells to producing just more viruses.

Now, there are some cancer-causing viruses, such as human papillomavirus, hepatitis B virus, which can cause cancer or be associated with cancer, liver cancer, mouth cancer, and cervical cancer.

However, the coronaviruses, that family of viruses, the common cold viruses,

Are not cancer-causing viruses.

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