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“The man dies of a heart attack after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.” The title is the same in several newspaper articles published on social networks in different countries and that have been shared on social networks. However, several Facebook users have taken advantage of sharing this information with additional comments that lead the reader to believe that there was a cause-and-effect relationship between the administration of the Covid-19 vaccine and the death of this 75-year-old man. years.
“Let’s get vaccinated and eat bologna bread, a bunch of stupid petrels !!” o “URGENT – Man dies of heart attack after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine” are some of the publications that launch this news, thus generating a chain of comments from other users who show fear of taking the vaccine and discredit its effectiveness. It should be noted that “patralhas” is a name invented in Brazil by the journalist Reinaldo Azevedo to insult any member of the leftist Workers Party (PT), thus fulfilling the position of the current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been considered a denier of the pandemic and has devalued the importance of vaccines (although he planned to purchase them)
However, when clicking on the listed news, there are other explanations. The news cites Israeli newspapers reporting on a man who died an hour after receiving a dose of the vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in association with BioNTech.
The Times of Israel, for example, reports that the Health Ministry opened an investigation into the death of a 75-year-old man who lost his life after receiving the vaccine. The old man already had serious health problems. It was 8:30 am on Monday (December 28) when he was administered the vaccine in Beit She’an, in the north of the country. The man still waited an hour, as recommended, to see if he felt any secondary feats, as nothing happened, he returned home where, shortly after, he lost consciousness, finally dying as a result of cardiorespiratory arrest.
The preliminary results of the investigation carried out by the Israeli government conclude, however, that this death was not related to the vaccine, among other things because the man already suffered from heart disease and already had a history of heart attacks. I also had cancer. The man’s own family has publicly rejected the link between the vaccine and death, asking everyone not to.
Vaccination against Covid-19 in Israel began on December 20.
It is true that a 75-year-old man lost consciousness and ended up dying of a cardiopulmonary arrest just over an hour after being vaccinated against Covid-19. But the health authorities guarantee, for now, that there is no relationship between the death of the man and the taking of the vaccine. Is that the man already suffered from heart problems and had even survived some attacks. By launching the news with a comment implying that vaccines can kill those who take them, the information shared deviates from the truth, making it misleading.
Thus, according to the Observer’s classification system, this content is:
Cheat
In the Facebook ranking system, this content is:
PARTIALLY FALSE: content claims are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate facts or the main claim is misleading or incomplete.
Note: This content was selected by the Observer as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
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