"I advise everyone to get vaccinated."
This appeal was made by Karim (nickname), 48, from his hospital bed on December 14.
This father, admitted to intensive care at Montreuil hospital and placed on oxygen a few days earlier, died on December 20 as a result of his Covid-19 infection.
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He had decided to testify in a report produced by AFP, to encourage people who had not yet done so, like him, to be vaccinated.
“If I do, I have to go get the vaccine. I advise everyone to do it, ”
he said, denouncing the conspiratorial speeches. It is
"the fear of the vaccine"
and the statements affirming that it "
can have repercussions behind"
which had also made him hesitate, he explained again. But his video did not have the desired effect.
Taken over by BFMTV, she was the target of messages on social networks accusing Karim of being
"a false patient"
, as reported by
Le Parisien
.
According to them, the man would be cited by the continuous news channel as being hospitalized in the hospital in Montreuil and in a hospital in Nice.
In fact, BFMTV broadcast Karim's testimony in the same video, specifying that he is indeed at the hospital in Montreuil, followed by a report made in an intensive care unit at the CHU de Nice.
"A real patient"
Faced with the
"surge on social networks with regard to this patient"
, the hospital itself wanted to express itself on this subject. In a press release, he asks
"all the media"
to
"re-establish the truth as to the fact that this patient was a real patient hospitalized exclusively at the Montreuil hospital".
"
The management of the GHT Grand Paris Nord-Est to which the Montreuil hospital is attached, deplores this controversy and strongly regrets the approximation of the report produced by BFMTV
"
,
he adds. Indeed, the establishment points the finger
"The resumption of this testimony, carried out at the Montreuil hospital, integrated into a subject on the Nice University Hospital (which) sparked a lively controversy tending to fuel conspiratorial theses on social networks since this patient was accused of to be a bogus patient ”.
Questioned by
the Parisian,
the sisters of the deceased also affirm that he has
"never been an actor in this interview"
and call to
"respect his memory and that all these absolutely false and aberrant theories about him cease"
.
As of January 3, 52.97 million people had received at least one dose of vaccine, or 78.9% of the 67.4 million French people, and 92% of the eligible population aged twelve and over, according to figures from Public health France.
