DISINFO: Alexei Navalny is one of the many victims of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

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DISINFO: Alexei Navalny is one of the many victims of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

SUMMARY

️FACT: Navalny received 5 Pfizer vaccines and died from a blood clot. RIP to all vaccine victims.

RESPONSE

Disinformation narrative targeting political opponent Alexei Navalny and Western vaccines against COVID-19. The death of political prisoner Alexei Navalny is still under investigation but the deceased Russian dissident spent his final days in one of Russia's harshest prisons. Furthermore, he almost died in 2020 after he was poisoned with a nerve agent. No causality between the Pfizer vaccine and the death of any patient has been established so far as summarised by FactCheck.org:

"More than half a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered in the U.S. and only a few, very rare, safety concerns have emerged. The vast majority of people experience only minor, temporary side effects such as pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, or muscle pain — or no side effects at all. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said, these vaccines “have undergone and will continue to undergo the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history.”

Read related stories such as: Zelenskyy allowed Pfizer to test a deadly vaccine on children, People vaccinated against Covid-19 are dying in hospitals, Official COVID narrative is an excuse for the reduction of world population.

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