17-year-old allegedly paralyzed in hospital after Corona vaccination! Reality or Fake News?
Since the vaccination campaign against the Corona virus started at the end of 2020, vaccination opponents have repeatedly tried to discredit the campaign with false reports. Currently, a report is making the rounds that allegedly a 17-year-old teenager from Lübbecke suffered paralysis after his Corona vaccination and is to be treated at the Johannes Wesling Klinikum in Minden.
17-year-old paralyzed after Corona vaccination?
This message can be found on the Telegram channel “ActivistMan.” This describes himself as a blogger and journalist. He wants to have learned of the case from the East Westphalian city of Lübbecke and had therefore made public the report of the paralysis of a teenager after his Corona vaccination. However, according to research by various media who have followed up on this case, it is considered certain that this case is fictitious. A spokesman for the Mühlenkreiskliniken, for example, categorically rules out the existence of a 17-year-old boy with paralysis symptoms after a Corona vaccination in the aforementioned hospital. Also with the Pandemiekrisestabsleitung of the circle Minden Luebbecke, which is responsible for the expiration of the inoculations in the cities Luebbecke and Minden, nothing is well-known from this erschütternden case, how the chief for public work of the city on inquiry of the German press agency communicates. From the Mühlenkreiskliniken it said. that since the beginning of the Corona pandemic more than 1,800 patients had to be treated because of Covid-19. Of these, 252 patients were in intensive care, all of whom were unvaccinated. 175 patients had died from the disease. .
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However, side effects can indeed occur in rare cases. For example, both the mRNA vaccines’ educational fact sheet and the vector vaccines’ educational fact sheet describe the possible vaccine reactions. They also list rare and severe side effects that have been observed in connection with the vaccines. As far as paralysis is concerned, physicians and researchers are aware that acute facial paralysis can occur in rare cases when vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, but in all cases it resolves after a few weeks. In contrast, Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis in the arms and legs, as well as the chest and face, has been detected in very rare cases (less than 0.01 percent) with the vector vaccines.
Fake news was probably invented by self-confessed contrarian
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For this reason, it seems likely that the story of
Telegram user “ActivistMann” was invented freely. Behind this account hides namely Querdenker Matthäus Westfal, who is well connected in Querdenker scene in Germany. Westfal had already attracted negative attention on several occasions, for example when he was involved in disrupting vaccination campaigns at schools. In addition, Westfal had held a microphone under the nose of CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet at an appearance and provocatively asked whether there would be concentration camps for the unvaccinated. In addition, according to various media, Westfal is also said to have been among the demonstrators who gained unauthorized access to the Bundestag in August 2020. On YouTube, however, the channel of the lateral thinker has since been removed.