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Vaccinations in Shanghai: How Effective is the Chinese Vaccine?
Photo: ALY SONG / REUTERS
Liu Xin sounded outraged when she reached out to her nearly 250,000 followers.
The moderator of the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN is an active user of Twitter, which is blocked in the People's Republic.
"I cannot independently verify it, but it is worrying," she wrote on Jan. 16.
In Germany ten people died a few days after they were vaccinated with the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine.
“How about checking it out?
Hello ??? «, she wrote - and marked the international competition in the tweet, as it were as a work instruction.
As Liu could easily have found out with the help of a search engine, the matter had long since been investigated by the dpa news agency and the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) responsible for vaccines.
Preliminary findings: Yes, there were deaths - all of them seriously ill, some over 90 years old, some in palliative care.
The PEI assumes "that the patients died of their underlying disease - in temporally coincidental connection with the vaccination".
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