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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

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The Virus Is Not Encoded in Us, Right?

It's injected deep into your deltoid muscle, right here, shoulder. The idea is not to put it in a blood vessel. Otherwise it would then for sure circulate everywhere. And they did before this even went into people, they did experiments in mice where they gave them a thousand times higher concentrations than they would ever give to people. You can find these nanoparticles in every tissue of the mouse, but that's at a thousand fold higher concentration. So I think at the levels that we're using in people, most of it's staying in the muscle, but sure, small amounts go elsewhere.

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