Yes, in one specific and published sense. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are mRNA vaccines, and the mRNA is carried inside lipid nanoparticles: tiny spheres made of four kinds of fat, one of them cholesterol. A lipid nanoparticle is about the size of a virus. It protects the fragile mRNA on its way into the body's cells, is taken up by them, and releases the mRNA, which the cell uses to make one viral protein for a short time before it breaks down. That is nanomedicine, and the full ingredient lists are published by regulators, including the FDA, Health Canada and the European Medicines Agency.
What a lipid nanoparticle is not is a device. It has no electronics, sensors, antennas, power source or means of sending a signal. The nanotechnology that can record from or stimulate the brain is a different kind of thing: electrode arrays placed by surgery, injectable mesh electronics, or magnetoelectric nanoparticles that need an outside magnetic field and are still being tested in laboratories and animals. None of these appears on any published vaccine ingredient list.
On the record: since 2021, claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide or other graphene materials have been checked by fact-checkers including Reuters, AFP and PolitiFact, and found false. Graphene oxide is not on any published ingredient list, and Pfizer has stated it is not used in making its vaccine. One early source of the claim was a report from a university in Spain that was not peer-reviewed.
Why the question appears in this archive: statements recorded in the journal suggest that nanotechnology "has been dispersed into the community", and connect it with the vaccines that most of the country received. The author has also noted that the first experience unlike anything before came within weeks of his first COVID-19 vaccination (see Why Hasn't It Been Turned Off?). Those are his questions, and they are kept as questions. This concept records what the published ingredients show. It does not explain the experiences the archive describes, and two events close together in time do not show that one caused the other (see Next to each other is not because of each other).
- Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines use lipid nanoparticles of four lipids (an ionisable lipid, DSPC, cholesterol and a PEG-lipid)
- Ingredient lists are published by regulators, among them Health Canada
- Graphene oxide claims rated false by multiple fact-checkers since 2021; Pfizer stated graphene oxide is not used
- Nanotechnology that records from or stimulates the brain requires electrodes or particles driven from outside; none is on a published ingredient list
Open questions
- This concept addresses what is in the published ingredients. It does not address the safety record of the vaccines, which is a separate medical question for a doctor or a regulator's published data.
- It does not explain the experiences recorded in the journal; it only removes one proposed mechanism from the record.
References
- Components of COVID-19 vaccines — Health Canada
- LNP carriers of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — Pharmaceutics (2021)
- COVID-19 vaccines do not contain graphene — PolitiFact (2022)
- Does the Pfizer vaccine contain graphene oxide? — Check Your Fact (2021)
- Why Hasn't It Been Turned Off?
Regulators are cited for the ingredients; fact-checkers for the outcome of their checks. A link to the author's concept gives his question, not a finding.
Not independently verified
This concept reports published ingredient lists and the outcome of published fact-checks. It makes no claim about the cause of any experience described in this archive, and it is not medical advice.
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