evidence: A recent tweet from Newsmax Media’s White House correspondent Emerald Robinson claimed the ingredients of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 could rewrite your DNA. Is this legit? [...] This is likely where the Twitter user got the idea that the vaccine will change your DNA. The thing is, that’s not how transfection works. Let’s look at this list of vaccine proposals from the University of Michigan’s health department for examples. Rather than changing DNA, these vaccines are designed to deliver the instructions for proteins to recreate an immune response to COVID-19 using the genes of the virus. [...] Reuters fact-checked a similar claim about COVID-19 vaccines genetically modifying humans, which they rated as false. Reuters interviewed Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Alliance for Science group, who said no vaccine can genetically modify human DNA. "That’s just a myth, one often spread intentionally by anti-vaccination activists to deliberately generate confusion and mistrust," Lynas told Reuters. "Genetic modification would involve the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell, and vaccines simply don’t do that."