I truly wish it WERE true, and that at least ONE country had grown a brain, but.........unfortunately....
Can't post the ORIGINAL LINK of this story as it's from a Proscribed site (not sure I can even name the site--maybe if I disguised it?-- "Prior to it's being news.com"--ok?)--
But the original site (a link to which you can find at the --gag---Politifact link below)---reads:
Breaking – Germany Halts All Covid-19 Vaccines, Says They Are Unsafe and No Longer Recommended!!
Friday, August 27, 2021 4:42
The above headline is followed by a bitchute video in which a man dressed as a news anchor reports the story.
But here's what (gag) Politifact says is the real deal:
The headline of a recent blog post would be big news — and bruising to efforts to vaccinate people against COVID-19 — if
www.politifact.com
No, Germany hasn’t blocked all COVID-19 vaccines over safety concerns
If Your Time is short
- This claim was made during a fictitious role-playing exercise and is not true.
See the sources for this fact-check
The headline of a recent blog post would be big news — and bruising to efforts to vaccinate people against COVID-19 — if it were true. But it’s not.
"Germany halts all Covid-19 vaccines, says they are unsafe and no longer recommended!!" reads the headline of
an Aug. 27 post.
The post shows a man identified as Stephan Kohn, director of "RKI," which in Germany is an acronym for the
Robert Koch Institute, the country’s public health institute. He appears in front of a screen that says "basiscamp.live" and "a global pandemic exit exercise."
"We have been receiving reports on side effects of the corona vaccinations which have triggered the federal government to pass a moratorium and that means the vaccinations are not recommended any longer," he says in the video. "Second, the license of the vaccinations has been put on hold for the next two weeks."
This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our
partnership with Facebook.)
Basecamp.live, according to its
website, was a 20-hour, live-streamed
pandemic exit exercise that happened between May and August.
"The crisis team of a fictitious German government met" and discussed vaccines and more.
Kohn is not actually the director of the Robert Kohn Institute. Dr. Lothar Wieler has been
president and head of the institute since March 2015. And Wieler has not said anything like Kohn says in the video.
Rather, Kohn said the vaccination rate needs to increase to avoid another wave, the Associated Press
reported on Sept. 8.
According to a
page on the German Federal Ministry of Health’s website, more than 61% of the country’s population were fully vaccinated as of Sept. 7. The site shows daily vaccine doses administered; tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of shots were given each day since this post was published.
Four COVID-19 vaccines
have been approved for use in Germany: Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca.
In March, the country
halted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people younger than 60 because of concerns it would cause fatal blood clots. In July, Reuters
reported Germany would donate all of its remaining AstraZeneca vaccines to less developed countries.
But Germany has not stopped its vaccination effort against COVID-19, as this post claims. That allegation originated in a role-playing exercise, but it wasn’t real.
We rate it False.
