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 The stuff I wrote is basic biochemistry that I learned during my med school. Other than that, I’m not saying vaccines don’t have any side effects, at the end of day, these mRNA code for proteins which may have short term to long term effects. That’s why we need to study vaccines for a longer duration of time before testing it on general population. 
 It seems like the body attacks the new cells that got the dna. The short and long term effects seem to depend on the contents of the vial. They don’t seem to be consistently holding the same amount of dna. 
 If there are plasmids, these plasmids can keep on synthesizing proteins which can lead to many complications like cancers and autoimmune disorders. There is also a chance that these plasmids gets integrated into our germ cells DNA or they replicate with our germ cells, which can pass these plasmids into our progeny. We need more data and trails on it as even if there is a small possibility about this, that’s a very big deal. 
These vaccines companies marketed their products as mRNA vaccines and mRNAs don’t have the capacity to cause alteration into your DNA.